NMLP P-035617 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-09

A Texas Cow Boy

Charles A. Siringo · M. Umbdenstock & Co. (Chicago) · 1885

Described by Howes as "the first -- and best -- cowboy autobiography" and quoted in Dykes's "Western High Spots" as "scarcer than hen's teeth" (J. Frank Dobie's phrase), it is Siringo's own account of his fifteen years on the Texas cattle ranges, written before he went to work as a Pinkerton detective

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-035617 for "A Texas Cow Boy" by Charles A. Siringo (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-035617, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).