Produced by Dianna Adair, Suzanne Shell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net A TEXAS COW BOY OR FIFTEEN YEARS ON THE HURRICANE DECK OF A SPANISH PONY. TAKEN FROM REAL LIFE BY Chas. A. Siringo. AN OLD STOVE UP COW PUNCHER WHO HAS SPENT NEARLY A LIFE TIME ON THE GREAT WESTERN CATTLE RANGES. GLOBE LITHOGRAPHING & PRINTING CO. CHICAGO Illustration: REPRESENTATION OF LIFE IN A COW CAMP. Illustration: THE AUTHOR, IN COW BOY UNIFORM. A TEXAS COW BOY OR, FIFTEEN YEARS ON THE Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony. TAKEN FROM REAL LIFE BY CHAS. A. SIRINGO, AN OLD STOVE UP "COW PUNCHER," WHO HAS SPENT NEARLY TWENTY YEARS ON THE GREAT WESTERN CATTLE RANGES. M. UMBDENSTOCK & CO., Publishers, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. 1885. Illustration: THE AUTHOR after he became stove-up--financially, as well as otherwise. INDEX. CHAPTER. PAGE. I. My Boyhood Days 13 II. My Introduction to the late war 20 III. My First Lesson in Cow Punching 31 IV. My second experience in St. Louis 43 V. A New experience 53 VI. Adopted and sent to school 61 VII. Back at last to the Lone Star State 68 VIII. Learning to rope wild steers 75 IX. Owning my first cattle 84 X. A start up the Chisholm trail 95 XI. Buys a boat and becomes a sailor 103 XII. Back to my favorite occupation, that of a wild and woolly Cow Boy 112 XIII. Mother and I meet at last 119 XIV. On a tare in Wichita, Kansas 129 XV. A lonely trip down the Cimeron 141 XVI. My first experience roping a Buffalo 150 XVII. An exciting trip after thieves 158 XVIII. Seven weeks among Indians 164 XIX. A lonely ride of eleven hundred miles 176 XX. Another start up the Chisholm trail 186 XXI. A trip which terminated in the capture of "Billy the Kid" 196 XXII. Billy the Kid's capture 215 XXIII. A trip to the Rio Grande on a mule 223 XXIV. Waylaid by unknown parties 231 XXV. Lost on the Staked Plains 239 XXVI. A trip down the Reo Pecos 255 XXVII. A true sketch of "Billy the Kid's" life 269 XXVIII. Wrestling with a dose of Small Pox on the Llano Esticado 285 XXIX. In love with a Mexican girl 299 XXX. A sudden leap from Cow Boy to Merchant 309 Copyrighted by CHAS. A. SIRINGO, Caldwell, Kans.