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The West of The Texas Kid, 1881-1910 - Recollections of Thomas Edgar Crawford Cowboy, Gun Fighter, Rancher, Hunter, Miner (Paperback, Reissue Ed.)
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The West of The Texas Kid, 1881-1910 - Recollections of Thomas Edgar Crawford Cowboy, Gun Fighter, Rancher, Hunter, Miner (Paperback, Reissue Ed.)
Series: The Western Frontier Library Series
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Thomas Edgar Crawford - variously known as ""The Texas Kid,"" ""The
Montana Kid,"" ""Buckskin,"" ""Kid,"" and ""Ed"" - teamed up early
with such notorious characters as Black Jack Ketchum and Henry
Starr. Later Crawford took up ranching in Montana and lived to tell
about the war between the cattlemen and sheepmen. He tried gold
mining in California, but was soon forced to sell his holdings in
order to avoid financial catastrophe. Here, published for the first
time, are Crawford's recollections of life in the West from 1881 to
1910, dictated when he was past seventy years old, not long before
his death in 1941. His story constitutes an amazing record of the
activities of outlaw gangs of his time and provides new material
about the Jackson Hole and Hole in the Wall outlaws - although
Crawford was reluctant to reveal the role he played in their
affairs. Crawford could understand a train or bank robber, but more
than once he took the trail after a horse thief. He liked horses
and intensely disliked sheep, but even so, he often opened his home
as a refuge to sheepherders to save them from freezing to death in
a blizzard. He loved to hunt, and some of his best tales concern
adventures in search of game. The West of the Texas Kid is one
man's account of the West as he knew it. Here, Thomas Edgar
Crawford has helped preserve the lore and legends of the Old West.
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