Cow-Boy Life in Texas, Or 27 Years a Mavrick A Realistic and True Recital of Wild Life on the Boundless Plains of Texas, Being the Actual Experience of Twenty-Seven Years in the Exciting Life of a Genuine Cow-Boy Among the Roughs and Toughs of Texas

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When men write on the subject who are familiar with the facts, from some unaccountable cause, they become possessed of an ambition for notoriety, and are willing to belittle the craft by exaggerating almost everything of which they write. The public read these stories, and from a morbid tendency on the part of a great majority of mankind to lionize a daring spirit, though it be of the demoniacal kind, they form their opinions, which are too often very absurd. The boy at his mother's knee catches the inspiration that starts him out in a life of counterfeiting the cow-boy.

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