附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-141).
Machine derived contents note: <h2>Contents</h2> -- List of Illustrations 000 -- Introduction 000 -- <b>The True Life Wild West Memoir of a Bush-Popping Cow Waddy</A></b> -- Part One: Over the Chisholm Trail, 1871</B> -- Prologue: Warner Brothers Studio 000 -- 1. Restless Spirit, 1869 000 -- 2. Snipe Hunting 000 -- 3. Southdown Country 000 -- 4. The Longhorns 000 -- 5. Coin of the Realm 000 -- 6. The Chisholm Trail 000 -- 7. Crossing Indian Territory 000 -- 8. Trail Lingo 000 -- 9. Cowboy, Cowpoke, Cowpuncher 000 -- 10. Six Inches to Hell 000 -- 11. The Murder of Marshal Smith 000 -- 12. Eyes Like Gimlets 000 -- 13. Wild Bill Hickok 000 -- 14. Buffaloing 000 -- 15. Wild Bill and the Tinhorn Gamblers 000 -- 16. Trouble in Nebraska 000 -- Part Two: Over the Western Trail, 1878</B> -- 17. Back in Texas 000 -- 18. Cow Chow 000 -- 19. Mr. Hiler 000 -- 20. The Texas Trail 000 -- 21. Custer 000 -- 22. Run Along Little Dogie, Run Along 000 -- 23. Strays and Drags 000 -- 24. Storms, Cyclones, and a Most Eerie Sight 000 -- 25. Chef Par Excellence 000 -- 26. Scorpion Pete and the Polecat 000 -- 27. Buffalo Biscuits and Sow Belly 000 -- 28. Surprised by Indians 000 -- 29. Two Bucks for the Orphans 000 -- 30. Chorus Gals 000 -- 31. Earp, Masterson, and Holliday 000 -- 32. Bullets in the Air 000 -- 33. Ballin' the Jack 000 -- 34. Ogallala 000 -- 35. The Fighting Parson's Son 000 -- 36. Sam Bass and the Train Robbery 000 -- 37. Homesteading 000 -- 38. Trail's End, 1940 000 -- Notes to the Memoir 000 -- <b>The World of Charley Hester</A></b> -- Geography of Two Trails Traveled 000 -- "Southdown Country" 000 -- The Abilene Cattle Market Crash 000 -- Ware/Lockridge 000 -- The Prairie Fire 000 -- Cowboy Songs and Verses 000 -- John Wesley Hardin 000 -- The Death of Hickok 000 -- The Ranches of 78 000 -- Javeline Hogs and Rattlesnakes 000 -- Huffmeyer's Experience 000 -- Custer and Hester 000 -- The Dull Knife Raid 000 -- The Grand Central Hotel Fire 000 -- The Killing of Ketchum an
摘要:A sixteen-year-old runaway from Illinois, Charley Hester (1853-1940) lit out from home in 1869, bound to make a life for himself on the great American frontier. In the winter of his life seven decades later, he dictated an account of his experiences in the Wild West of his youth. Charley Hester's memoir recounts the journeys that took him to Missouri, Texas, Indian Territory, Kansas, and Nebraska and brought him face-to-face with badman John Wesley Hardin as well as Joel Collins before Collins formed his band of stagecoach and train robbers. The young cow waddy also tells of meeting Wild Bill Hickok, observing Doc Holliday's deft card play, and witnessing the waylaying of a drunken buffalo hunter by Wyatt Earp. So engaging that they figured in Warner Brothers' research for the classic movie Dodge City, Hester's adventures are the stuff of true Americana: history rendered in bolder strokes and brighter colors than the most outlandish fiction, as outrageous and outrageously entertaining as it is true.
