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Author Hale, Will, author

Title Twenty-Four Years a Cowboy and Ranchman : Or, Desperate Fights with the Indians and Mexicans
Published Crabtree : Narrative Press, the, Sept. 2004

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Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS -- MY START. -- BATTLE OF RESACA DE PALMA. -- BATTLE IN THE NARROW MOUNTAIN PASS OF BUENA VISTA. -- CAPTURE SOME NEGRO SOLDIERS AND ONE OF THE BOYS SHOOTS AN INDIAN, WHO WAS ACTING LIKE A HOG, SO HE COULD SCARE THE HORSES OFF, THEN STEAL THEM. -- SCHOOL COMMENCES AGAIN � THE SAME OLD TEACHER � THE PRINCIPAL AGAIN. ME AND JIM SAYS WE WILL DEAL HIM MISERY. -- FIGHT WITH THE MEXICAN AND INDIAN HORSE THIEVES. -- SCHOOL COMMENCES IN OCTOBER AGAIN WITH A NEW TEACHER WHOSE NAME WAS MOORE
A TRIP TO GALVESTON AND THEN TO THE RANCH. MY TRIP WAS VERY DISAGREEABLE AND WEARISOME.ANOTHER TRIP TO GALVESTON AND THEN TO THE RANCH. -- FIRST YEAR A COWBOY. A BIG FIGHT WITH THE KICKAPOO INDIANS. -- FATHER AND I SPEND THE WINTER AT CORPUS CHRISTI. I FALL IN LOVE WITH A MEXICAN GIRL. -- THE WAR OF SECESSION AND THE FIRST BATTLE AT BULL RUN � WE ARE BADLY DEFEATED IN THIS BATTLE. -- CAMPAIGN IN 1862. -- THE LAST DAYS OF THE CONFEDERACY � CAMPAIGN OF 1864 AND 1865 ENDS THE WAR. -- AFTER THE WAR WENT BACK TO THE LONE STAR STATE AND FOLLOWED THE WILD LIFE OF A COWBOY
I make another trip to fort brown. shooting scrape with two mexicans and a negro.i take a partner in the cattle trade, and father's opinion. he says a woman should be the one. -- another cattle raid and one of mr. pink's detectives comes to see us. -- we relieve the mexicans of their gold and silver and then take a trip to galveston. -- killing of captain gondales, major decelli vercipuci, and whan deoli. -- we make another trip to matamoros. jim smith saves a girl's life
The smith boys and scott arrive at the de soyos. jim smith goes to the horse races and the bull fights.san tigo comes in and jim gets a good look at him. -- the fight close to the canyon. palametho and many a mexican chews the dust. -- jim smith cuts a mexican sentry's throat and relieves them of their captives. -- the last days of the smith gang. we never see tom scott again. we all were glad to leave. -- these are our last days in south-ern texas and old mexico. we sell our property and go to missouri
A trip to galveston. me and tom and the smith boys go to missouri. jack lewis kills two negroes and then goes to western texas.tom rily marries and then i am alone. -- in the wild west again. trip to southwestern texas or southeast-ern new mexico with bob dixon. -- war in lincoln county, new mexico, known as the lincoln county war. -- the kid returns from the texas panhandle and kills a man at fort sumner, and shoots one of his own men through the shoulder. -- the kid kills jim caralyle and makes his escape to antonchico and steals some horses
Summary Get a glimpse into the mind of a real outlaw cowboy as you follow Will Hale through Indian fights, cattle raids, murders, love affairs, practical jokes, and wars
Audience Trade The Narrative Press
Subject Stone, William Hale, 1875-
SUBJECT Stone, William Hale, 1875- fast (OCoLC)fst00476533
Subject Frontier and pioneer life -- Texas
Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.)
Cowboys.
Cowboys.
Frontier and pioneer life.
Texas.
West United States.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781589761001
1589761006