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Indlæser... The Life and Adventures of Nat Love (udgave 2010)af Nat Love
Work InformationThe Life and Adventures of Nat Love: Better Known in the Cattle Country as "Deadwood Dick" af Nat Love
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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. Love and his parents were owned by planter Robert Love, and after Emancipation, his parents remained on Love's plantation as sharecroppers while Nat left and headed west. He found work as a cowboy, first on the Duval Ranch in the Texas panhandle, then on the Gallinger Ranch in southern Arizona. Love's narrative details his many adventures and exploits, such as being captured and shot by Pima Indians, who eventually spared his life because they sympathized with his plight as a black man. In Deadwood, Dakota Territory, he entered a rodeo, winning $200 and the nickname Deadwood Dick, a reference to a literary character from a dime novel of the day. Published in 1907, the Life and Adventures of Nat Love would help to make Love a black folk hero of the Old West. No library descriptions found. |
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I first heard of Nat Love when I read Paradise Sky, by Joe Lansdale. Nat Love was the main character and narrator, and I didn’t think to look up if he was based on a real person until I was almost finished with the book. I was excited to find that not only was he a real person: he had also written an autobiography that was published in 1907.
Because of other time commitments, I started this in small installments, a chapter or two a day, which is a fine way to get through it. I decided to power through to the end today, and that worked fine too. Either way, it’s a short book.
I expected his 20 years as a cowboy to be the most interesting part of his life, but this section of the book was actually my least favorite. He was at his least likeable in this stage of his life, and he sounded like a boastful jerk in the chapters describing the cowboy life. The cowboy life was also a lot more repetitive than I was expecting, despite the adventures he encountered making trips back and forth across the country with large herds of cattle or horses.
I was much more interested in his childhood, where his descriptions reflected a deadpan humor that must have inspired Lansdale when he wrote his novel from Love’s point of view. I was also fascinated by his post-cowboy career as a Pullman porter once he was married, which was his way of settling down but still feeding his desire for adventure and travel. I related to the sentiment in those chapters, and wished I could go on a railway journey myself in one of the wonderful trains he described. I related more to the spirit of adventure that expressed a love of the natural wonders of America as opposed to a spirit of adventure that spoiled for fights with Indians and killed buffalo for sport.
It’s worth a read if you’re curious about this period of history and definitely worth reading if you’ve read Paradise Sky or other works featuring Nat Love as a character. ( )