Thousands of black cowpunchers drove cattle up the Chisholm Trail after the Civil War, but only Nat Love wrote about his experiences. Born to slaves in Davidson County, Tennessee, the newly freed Love struck out for Kansas after the war. He was fifteen and already endowed with...
Book Excerpt: reedom of its people. Illustration: My First Drunk]Some of the slaves, like us, had kind and indulgent masters. These were lucky indeed, as their lot was somewhat improved over their less fortunate brothers, but even their lot was the same as that of the horse or...
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...
Exploits of the most famous Black folk hero of the Old West in his own words! I. Slavery Days; the Old Plantation; My Early Foraging; the Stolen Demijohn; My First Drunk II. The War; the Rebels and the Yankees; I Raise a Regiment; Difficulty in Finding an Enemy; Freedom III...
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The Life and Adventures of Nat Love (1907) is an autobiography by Nat Love. Written while Love was living in California, the text is an invaluable record of the wildness of the American West in the final decades of the nineteenth century. Filled with tales of adventure...
Written while Nat Love was living in California, this autobiography is an invaluable record of the wildness of the American West in the final decades of the nineteenth century. Filled with tales of adventure and danger, The Life and Adventures of Nat Love is a moving...
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"Born a slave, he goes on to be a free man in pursuit of the wildlife on the range. His voice is strong and inspiring, his proud declaration of being an American is infectious " Nat Love was a Brother and truly a frontier legend of the American West. Whether as a slave,...
As one of the most famous black heroes of the Old West, Nat Love documents his own life from a plantation slave to a well-known cowboy of the American West to a porter on a Pullman car. The original cover page read: "The Life and Adventures Of Nat Love Better Known In The Cattle...
This autobiography chronicles the author's exploits as a frontiersman and railroadman. Born enslaved, Nat Love left his family when he was 15 to make a living as a cowboy on the western frontier.
The Life and Adventures of Nat Love;Better Known in the Cattle Country as "Deadwood Dick", has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this...
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