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Title: The Life and Adventures of Nat Love
Better Known in the Cattle Country as "Deadwood Dick"

Author: Nat Love

Release Date: May 28, 2007 [EBook #21634]

Language: English

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The Life and Adventures

OF

NAT LOVE

BETTER KNOWN IN THE CATTLE COUNTRY AS

"DEADWOOD DICK"

--BY HIMSELF--

A TRUE HISTORY OF SLAVERY DAYS, LIFE ON THE
GREAT CATTLE RANGES AND ON THE PLAINS
OF THE "WILD AND WOOLLY" WEST,
BASED ON FACTS, AND PERSONAL
EXPERIENCES
OF THE AUTHOR

Published: Los Angeles: Wayside Press, 1907.

[Illustration: Nat Love, Better Known as Deadwood Dick, and His Family]

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This book is dedicated to my wife,
MRS. ALICE LOVE

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PREFACE

Having passed the half century mark in life's journey, and yielding to
persistent requests of many old and valued friends of the past and
present, I have decided to write the record of slave, cowboy and pullman
porter will prove of interest to the reading public generally and
particularly to those who prefer facts to fiction, (and in this case
again facts will prove stranger than fiction). I assure my readers that
every event chronicled in this history is based on facts, and my
personal experiences, of more than fifty years of an unusually
adventurous life.

While many things contained in this record happened many years ago, they
are as fresh in my memory as if they happened but yesterday. I have
tried to record events simply as they are, without attempting to varnish
over the bad spots or draw on my imagination to fill out a chapter at
the cost of the truth. It has been my aim to record things just as they
happened, believing they will prove of greater interest thereby; and if
I am able to add to the interest and enjoyment of a single reader I will
consider m