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(COWBOYS.) Love, Nat. The Life Adeventures of Nat Love better known in the Cattle Country as "Deadwood Dick."
Portrait frontispiece, numerous full-page illustrations. 8vo, original pictorial cloth; dampstaining along the top edges of the preliminaries. Los Angeles, 1907
- Notes: first edition. A classic by one of the most famous black cowboys. Nat Love (1854-1921) was born a slave in Tennessee. He worked as a cowboy for 20 years and in 1876 won the title of "Champion" in a contest in Deadwood, SD. From that moment on he used the name "Deadwood Dick." He retired from cowboy life in 1890 and went to work as a Pullman porter until shortly before his death. Rampaging Herd 1355; Blockson Collection 3236; William Loren Katz, The Black West, pages 150-52.
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