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Texas Cowboy; Or Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony

Name: Texas Cowboy; Or Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony
Author: Charles A. Siringo

Charles A. Siringo

Read by David Wales · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

Chapters

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Preface (5:41)
Chapters 1-3: My boyhood days, My introduction to the late war, My first lesson in cow punching (36:37)
Chapters 4-6: My second experience in St. Louis, A new experience, Adopted and sent to school (28:12)
Chapters 7-9: Back at last to the Lone Star State, Learning to rope wild steers, Owning my first cattle (33:28)
Chapters 10-12: A start up the Chisholm Trail, Buys a boat and becomes a sailor, Back to my favorite occupation, that of a wild and woolly cow boy (28:15)
Chapters 13-15: Mother and I meet at last, On a tare in Wichita, Kansas, A lonely trip down the Cimeron (38:15)
Chapters 16-18: My first experience roping a buffalo, An exciting trip after thieves, Seven weeks among Indians (32:39)
Chapters 19-21: A lonely ride of eleven hundred miles, Another start up the Chisholm Trail, A trip which terminated in the capture of "Billy The Kid" (46:05)
Chapters 22-24: Billy The Kid's capture, A trip to the Rio Grande on a mule, Waylaid by unknown parties (27:12)
Chapters 25-27: Lost on the Staked Plains, A trip down the Reo Pecos, A true sketch of "Billy The Kid's" life (52:31)
Chapters 28-30: Wrestling with a dose of small pox on the Llano Esticado, In love with a Mexican girl, A sudden leap from cow boy to merchant (39:19)