Life and Adventures of Nat Love, Better Known in the Cattle Country as "Deadwood Dick," by Himself

By: Nat Love

Narrated by: Hal Saunders

Nat Love, the son of enslaved parents, was born in 1854 on a plantation in Davidson County, Tennessee. In February 1869, Love left Tennessee and found work as a cowboy, first in the Texas panhandle, then in Arizona. Love's story, The Life and Adventures of Nat Love, was published in 1907, and it is considered the only full-length autobiography by an African-American cowhand.

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Excellent Autobiography & History Lesson

This autobiography felt like stepping directly into the Old West but through a perspective that history often overlooks. Nat Love’s autobiography is detailed, & unapologetic. From enslavement in Tennessee to becoming a skilled cowboy, marksman, & rodeo champion, his story challenges the narrow image many of us were taught about the American frontier. Black cowboys were not rare exceptions (they were part of the fabric of the West) & Nat firsthand account makes that undeniable.

Great Book

Very good book... a must read for anyone that's interested in how the west was really won. Written by a real black man who was there and lived to write the story. A must read!

Delightful

Let me start with a PSA, this books language toward Native Americans will offend some. That said this book exceeded my expectations thoroughly and I found it delightful from begining to end.. I was expecting a dry account of some cowboy telling tall tales of his exploits and conquests. Instead I heard a humble man tell me a well written account of some amazing adventures as he works to survive as a slave, farmer, cowboy then as an early employee of the Pullman company. He tells some harrowing stories of survival that kept me on the edge of my seat and some laugh out loud humor despite the deadpan monotone of the narrator. Don't get me wrong the narrator does an amazing job, just a little to academic for such an amazing story.