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  • Life and Adventures of Nat Love, Better Known in the Cattle Country as "Deadwood Dick," by Himself: A True History of Slavery Days, Life on the Great Cattle Ranges and on the Plains of the "Wild and Woolly" West, Based on Facts, and Personal Experiences of the Author
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  • Nat Love
  • 2017
  • Published by: The University of North Carolina Press
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Nat Love's memoir Life and Adventures of Nat Love is one of the only firsthand accounts of an African American cowhand in the western United States from this period. Love and his parents were owned by planter Robert Love, and after Emancipation, his parents remained on Love's plantation as sharecroppers while Nat left and headed west. He found work as a cowboy, first on the Duval Ranch in the Texas panhandle, then on the Gallinger Ranch in southern Arizona. Love's narrative details his many adventures and exploits, such as being captured and shot by Pima Indians, who eventually spared his life because they sympathized with his plight as a black man. In Deadwood, Dakota Territory, he entered a rodeo, winning $200 and the nickname Deadwood Dick, a reference to a literary character from a dime novel of the day. Published in 1907, the Life and Adventures of Nat Love would help to make Love a black folk hero of the Old West.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright Page
  2. pp. 1-2
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  1. About This Edition
  2. p. 3
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  1. Summary
  2. pp. 4-12
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  1. Preface
  2. p. 13
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. 14-18
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  1. Chapter I. Slavery Days; the Old Plantation; My Early Foraging; the Stolen Demijohn; My First Drunk
  2. pp. 19-24
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  1. Chapter II. The War; the Rebels and the Yankees; I Raise a Regiment; Difficulty in Finding an Enemy; Ash Cake; Freedom
  2. pp. 25-28
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  1. Chapter V. Home Life; Picking Berries; the Pigs Commit Larceny; Nutting; We Go to Market; My First Desire to See the World; I win a Horse in a Raffle; the Last of Home
  2. pp. 39-43
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  1. Chapter VI. The World is Before Me; I join the Texas Cowboys; Red River Dick; My First Outfit; My First Indian Fight; I Learn to Use My Gun
  2. pp. 44-48
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  1. Chapter VII. I Learn to Speak Spanish; I Am Made Chief Brand Reader; the Big Round-up; the 7XL Steer; Long Rides; Hunting Strays
  2. pp. 49-53
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  1. Chapter VIII. On the Trail; a Texas Storm; Battle with the Elements; After Business Comes Pleasure
  2. pp. 54-58
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  1. Chapter IX. Enroute to Wyoming; the Indians Demand Toll; the Fight; a Buffalo Stampele; Tragic Death of Cal Surcey; An Eventful Trip
  2. pp. 59-64
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  1. Chapter XI. A Buffalo Hunt; I Lose My Lariat and Saddle; I Order a Drink for Myself and My Horse; a Close Place in Old Mexico
  2. pp. 70-76
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  1. Chapter XII. A Big Mustang Hunt; We Tire Them Out; the Indians Capture Mess Wagon and Cook; Our Bill of Fare Buffalo Meat without Salt
  2. pp. 77-81
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  1. Chapter XVI. The Old Haze and Elsworth Trail; Our Trip to Cheyenne; Ex-Sheriff Pat F. Garret; the Death of Billy the “Kid;” the Lincoln County Cattle War
  2. pp. 103-108
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  1. Chapter XX. The Tourist Sleeping Car; the Chair Car; the Safeguards of Modern Railroading; See America, Then Let Your Chest Swell with Pride that You are an American
  2. pp. 126-131
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  1. Chapter XXI. A Few of the Railroad Men Under Whom I Have Served; George M. Pullman; the Town of Pullman, Ill.; American Railroads Lead the World; a Few Figures
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