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A Texas Cowboy

Charles A. Siringo

Form
Form Memoir
Year
Year 1885
Pages
Pages 200

The subtitle Charles Siringo gave this book, Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony, is a working hand's joke about a saddle, and it carries the temperament of the whole thing. Siringo was born in Matagorda County to an Italian father and an Irish mother, and he was riding for wages while he was still a boy.

your humble Servant came prancing into this wide and wicked world
A Texas Cowboy, Charles A. Siringo

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