COW - BOY LIFE IN TEXAS BY W. S. (WILL) JAMES. DATE HARD TO READ - 1893? HARDBACK
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COW-BOY LIFE IN TEXAS, OR, 27 YEARS A MAVERICK: A REALISTIC AND TRUE RECITAL OF WILD LIFE ON THE BOUNDLESS PLAINS OF TEXAS, BEING THE ACTUAL EXPERIENCE OF TWENTY-SEVEN YEARS IN THE EXCITING LIFE OF A GENUINE COW-BOY AMONG THE ROUGHS AND TOUGHS OF TEXAS BY W.S. (WILL) JAMES. DATE HARD TO READ - 1893? HARDBACK
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25 FULL-PAGE TEXT ILLUSTRATIONS.
Howes J 51; Adams Rampaging Herd 1159; ...Rader 2067; Graff 2194; Jenkins (Basic Texas Books) 104.
A REALISTIC AND TRUE RECITAL OF WILD LIFE ON THE BOUNDLESS PLAINS OF TEXAS, BEING THE ACTUAL EXPERIENCE OF TWENTY-SEVEN YEARS IN THE EXCITING LIFE OF A GENUINE COW-BOY AMONG THE ROUGHS AND TOUGHS OF TEXAS. OVER FIFTY ILLUSTRATIONS, TAKEN FROM LIFE.
W.S. JAMES WAS BORN AUGUST 27, 1856 IN TARRANT COUNTY, TEXAS. HE WENT TO LAMPASAS WHEN HE WAS 19 AND MARRIED AT AGE 21. THE 27 IN THE TITLE REFERS TO THE YEARS IN HIS LIFE WHEN HE SOMETIMES LIVED ON THE WILD SIDE, SO TO SPEAK. HIS PURPOSE IN WRITING THE BOOK WAS TO DESCRIBE THE TRUE LIFE OF A COWBOY, NOT THAT AS PORTRAYED IN THE DIME NOVELS OF THE DAY. HE WORKED AS A COWBOY UNTIL 1885 WHEN, AS HE EXPLAINS IT, HE WAS "CONVERTED" AND BECAME A WORKING MISSIONARY AMONG THE COWBOYS AND RANGE HANDS.
CHAPTER I - THE TERM COW-BOY
CHAPTER II - THE GENUINE COW-BOY
CHAPTER III - THE CLASS OF MEN WHO ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE HARD NAME THE TEXAS COW-BOY HAS
CHAPTER IV - SENSATIONAL STORIES, WITH THEIR RESULT
CHAPTER V - THE BEGINNING OF CATTLE STEALING IN TEXAS ON A LARGE SCALE
CHAPTER VI - THE DIFFERENT CHARACTERS TO BE MET WITH IN RANCH LIFE - THE MANNERS OF COW-MEN
CHAPTER VII - STYLE ON THE RANCH
CHAPTER VIII - THE FREE GRASS AND PASTURE MEN
CHAPTER IX - MODERN CATTLE STEALING AS A SCIENCE
CHAPTER X - CHARACTERISTICS OF A COW-BOY
CHAPTER XI - (NO TITLE)
CHAPTER XII - THE COW-BOY IN RELATION TO SLANG
CHAPTER XIII - PECULIARITIES OF THE COW-BOY
CHAPTER XIV - ? THERE IS A POEM HERE
CHAPTER XV - ? THERE IS AN ILLUSTRATION HERE
CHAPTER XVI - THE PRAIRIE DOG AND THE COTTON TAIL RABBIT
CHAPTER XVII - LECTURE TO CATTLEMEN
DON'T KNOW WHY NO CHAPTER 14 OR 15 - NO PAGE NUMBERS MISSING IN BOOK. I HAVE A 1968 COPY AND THOSE CHAPTERS ARE MISSING IN IT.
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