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Thousands of black cowpunchers drove cattle up the Chisholm Trail after theCivil War but only Nat Love wrote about his experiences. Born to slaves inDavidson County Tennessee the newly freed Love struck out for Kansas afterthe war. He was fifteen and already endowed with a reckless and romanticreadiness. In wideopen Dodge City he joined up with an outfit from the TexasPanhandle to begin a career riding the range and fighting Indians outlaws andthe elements. Years later he would say I had an unusually adventurous life.That was rare understatement. More characteristic was Loves claim I carrythe marks of fourteen bullet wounds on different parts of my body most any oneof which would be sufficient to kill an ordinary man but I am not evencrippled. In 1876 a virtuoso rodeo performance in Deadwood Dakota Territorywon him the moniker of Deadwood Dick. He became known as DD all over the Westentering into dime novels as a mysteriously dark and heroic presence. Thisvivid autobiography includes encounters with Bat Masterson and Billy the Kid asoonafter view of the Custer battlefield and a successful courtship. Loveleft the range in 1890 the year of the official closing of the frontier. Thenas a Pullman train conductor he traveled his old trails and those good timesbring his story to a satisfying end. «
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