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The Log of a Cowboy, Paperback / softback Book

The Log of a Cowboy Paperback / softback

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Just why my father moved, at the close of the civil war, from Georgia to Texas, is to this good hour a mystery to me.

While we did not exactly belong to the poor whites, we classed with them in poverty, being renters; but I am inclined to think my parents were intellectually superior to that common type of the South.

Both were foreign born, my mother being Scotch and my father a north of Ireland man,-as I remember him, now, impulsive, hasty in action, and slow to confess a fault.

It was his impulsiveness that led him to volunteer and serve four years in the Confederate army,-trying years to my mother, with a brood of seven children to feed, garb, and house.

The war brought me my initiation as a cowboy, of which I have now, after the long lapse of years, the greater portion of which were spent with cattle, a distinct recollection.

Sherman's army, in its march to the sea, passed through our county, devastating that section for miles in its passing.

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