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Yazar Redskin and Cow-Boy (Illustrated): A Tale of the Western Plains Classic Book by G.A. HENTY with Original Illustration |
G.A. HENTY |
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G.A. HENTY
The book "Redskin and Cowboy" was written in 1891 and described the Wild West as it was at the time. Here is the extract from the author's preface: "The principal part of the tale is laid among the cow-boys of the Western States of America, a body of men unrivalled in point of hardihood and devotion to work, as well as in reckless courage and wild daring... The picture I have given of their life can be relied upon, and its adventures and dangers are in no degree coloured, as I have taken them from the lips of a near relative of my own who was for some years working as a cow-boy in New Mexico. He was an actor in many of the scenes described, and so far from my having heightened or embellished them, I may say that I have given but a small proportion of the perilous adventures through which he went, for had I given them in full it would, I am sure, have seemed to you that the story was too improbable to be true. In treating of cow-boy life, indeed, it may well be said that truth is stranger than fiction."
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