{"product_id":"a-texas-cowboy-isbn-9780140437515","title":"A Texas Cowboy","description":"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 cattle from Austin to Kansas; knew Tascosa\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003enow a historic monument\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003ewhen it was home to raucous saloons, red light districts, and a fair share of violence; and led a posse of cowboys in pursuit of Billy the Kid and his gang.\u003cp\u003eFirst 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIntroduction by Richard W. Etulain\u003cbr\u003eSuggestions for Further Reading\u003cbr\u003eA Note on the Text\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Texas Cowboy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI. My Boyhood Days\u003cbr\u003eII. My Introduction to the late war\u003cbr\u003eIII. My First Lesson in Cow Punching\u003cbr\u003e IV. My second experience in St. Louis\u003cbr\u003eV. A New experience\u003cbr\u003eVI. Adopted and sent to school\u003cbr\u003eVII. Back at last to the Lone Star State\u003cbr\u003eVIII. Learning to rope wild steers\u003cbr\u003eIX. Owning my first cattle\u003cbr\u003eX. A start up the Chisolm trail\u003cbr\u003eXI. Buys a boat and becomes a sailor\u003cbr\u003eXII. Back to my favorite occupation, that of a wild and woolly Cow Boy\u003cbr\u003eXIII. Mother and I meet at last\u003cbr\u003eXIV. On a tare in Wichita, Kansas\u003cbr\u003eXV. A lonely trip down the Cimeron\u003cbr\u003eXVI. My first experience roping a Buffalo\u003cbr\u003eXVII. An exciting trip after thieves\u003cbr\u003eXVIII. Seven weeks among Indians\u003cbr\u003eXIX. A lonely ride of eleven hundred miles\u003cbr\u003eXX. Another start up the Chisolm trail\u003cbr\u003eXXI. A trip which terminated in the capture of \"Billy the Kid\"\u003cbr\u003eXXII. Billy the Kid's capture\u003cbr\u003eXXIII. A trip to the Rio Grande on a mule\u003cbr\u003eXXIV. Waylaid by unknown parties\u003cbr\u003eXXV. Lost on the Staked Plains\u003cbr\u003eXXVI. A trip down the Reo Pecos\u003cbr\u003eXXVII. A true sketch of \"Billy the Kid's\" life\u003cbr\u003eXXVIII. Wrestling with a dose of Small Pox on the Llano Esticado\u003cbr\u003eXXIX. In love with a Mexican girl\u003cbr\u003eXXX. A sudden leap from Cow Boy to Merchant\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAddenda:\u003cbr\u003ePart I. - Cost of raising a three-year old steer\u003cbr\u003ePart II. - Driving young steers \"up the trail.\"\u003cbr\u003ePart III. - What a young man can do in ten years with a start of 100 two-year-old heifers.\u003cbr\u003ePart IV. - The much abused cow-pony.\u003cbr\u003ePart V. - Cow-boys' wages - and cost of outfit.\u003cbr\u003ePart VI. - Losses on a cattle ranch from deaths, theft, etc.\u003cbr\u003ePart VII. - Raising cow-ponies on the range\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExplanatory Notes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard W. Etulain\u003c\/b\u003e is professor emeritus of history and former director of the Center for the American West at the University of New Mexico. He has authored or edited more than forty books.","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304933904613,"sku":"NP9780140437515","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780140437515.jpg?v=1767720850","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/a-texas-cowboy-isbn-9780140437515","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}