Books by Nat Love

As one of the most famous black heroes of the Old West, Nat Love documents his own life from a plantation slave to a well-known cowboy of the American West to a porter on a Pullman car. The original cover page read: ?The Life and Adventures Of Nat Love Better Known In The Cattle Country As ?Deadwood Dick? ?By Himself? A True History of Slavery Days, Life On The Great Cattle Ranges And On The Plains Of The ?Wild And Woolly? West, Based On Facts, And Personal Experiences Of The Author?.

This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical literature works from over two thousand years. Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of international literature classics available in printed format again ¿ worldwide.

Nat Love's memoir Life and Adventures of Nat Love is one of the only firsthand accounts of an African American cowhand in the western United States from this period. Published in 1907, the Life and Adventures of Nat Love would help to make Love a black folk hero of the Old West.