A Texas Cowboy: or, Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony
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First published in 1885, Siringo's chronicle of his life as a itchy-footed boy, cowhand, range detective, and adventurer was one the first classics about the Old West and helped to romanticize the West and its myth of the American cowboy. Will Rogers declared, "That was the Cowboy's Bible when I was growing up."
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Reviews for A Texas Cowboy
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Charlie Siringo was real, a genuine lawman who was a friend of Charlie Bowdrie, who was a friend and often companion of William Bonney, "Billy the Kid". Siringo drifted uphill from his birth on the Texas Gulf coast, and was a spectator (...just a spectator, honest! ) of many colourful parts of the Old West. He eventually became a technical adviser to the William S. Hart Movies. This is his version of his salad days, and it's a good read. His later book on the use of private security forces to carry out class warfare "Two Evil Isms: Anarchism and Pinkertonism" is always hard to find, though it's more valuable to the historian. Check out the final episodes of HBO's "deadwood" for the results of that book.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5It has been said that A Texas Cowboy was the original western. Will Rogers said it was "the Cowboy's Bible" when he was growing up. An historian said it was the first authentic memoir by a real cowboy. It contains a gold mine of names, cowboy lingo, places and events such as "Whiskey Pete", Billy the Kid's secret hideout, and "grub". I felt a constant déjà vu since so many later books and movies drew from things described here (though not only here). It's not a romanticized account, it reads like non-fiction and is unflinching - children beat up and generally very harsh times in particular during the 1860s when Siringo left home a young teenager. It seemed Siringo initially became a cowboy because he could at least obtain meat on the prairie since there were so many cattle around for the taking, he was otherwise a starving homeless kid. The story of Billy the Kid is the most famous and attracted much attention, then and now, but there is a lot of incident of the regular cowboy life that I found interesting. (Via the excellent David Wales narration at LibriVox).