A Texas cowboy; or, Fifteen years on the hurricane deck of a Spanish pony, taken from real life

by Charles A. Siringo

1886 347 pages eng

After a nomadic childhood, Charles Siringo signed on as a teenage cowboy for the noted Texas cattle king, Shanghai Pierce, and began a life that embraced all the hard work, excitement, and adventure readers today associate with the cowboy era. He "rid the Chisholm trail," driving 2,500 heads of catt…