Life and Adventures of Nat Love

By Nat Love,

Book cover of Life and Adventures of Nat Love: Better Known in the Cattle Country as 'Deadwood Dick'

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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I love reading books by authors from the margins like Nat Love, who started life enslaved and later adopted a persona as a black cowboy outlaw.

His autobiography surprised me by combining elements of slave narratives, popular Westerns, and travel narratives. The result is a kind of crazy quilt of different personalities that Nat takes on as he moves from slave to cowboy to railroad porter.

I come from a working-class background, so I admire how authors like Nat have to be resourceful and reinvent themselves to survive and tell their own stories in a world where they have little…

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