A TEXAS COW BOY - Charlie Siringo
| Автор: | Charlie Siringo |
| Издательство: | Bookwire |
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| Жанр произведения: | Книги для детей: прочее |
| Год издания: | 0 |
| isbn: | 9788027220458 |
"A Texas Cowboy" subtitled as «Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony» is one of the few books which offers a true look into the life of a real cowboy and that too written by someone who had actually lived the life. Excerpt: "While ranching on the Indian Territory line, close to Caldwell, Kansas, in the winter of '82 and '83, we boys—there being nine of us—made an iron-clad rule that whoever was heard swearing or caught picking grey backs off and throwing them on the floor without first killing them, should pay a fine of ten cents for each and every offense. The proceeds to be used for buying choice literature—something that would have a tendency to raise us above the average cow-puncher…" Charlie Siringo was an American lawman, detective and agent for the Pinkerton National Detective Agency.