Born in Tennessee in 1854, Nat Love headed west when he was fifteen to seek his fortune as a cowboy. He had broken wild horses as a boy and it didn't take him long to become a cowpuncher with the best of them—a champion roper, sharp-shooter, bronco rider. Working with the cattle drives from the Texas border to Montana, he became known as Deadwood Dick, a cowboy who could shoot a running buffalo at two hundred yards, who was captured by Indians and escaped, who held records in all the roping, shooting, and riding contests.

When the railroads invaded the prairies and other cowboys were out of work, Nat became a Pullman porter. In later years he wrote about his adventures on the range in his autobiography published in 1907. Here, those adventures of a hero of the real Wild West are related for young readers.

From the dust jacket