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Following a nomadic youth, Charles Siringo closed on being a cowboy for the mentioned Texas cattle master, Shanghai Pierce, and started nowadays a life that accepted all of the enthusiasm, effort, and adventure visitors keep company with the cowboy time. He "clear the Chisholm trail," operating 2,500 brains of cows from Austin to Kansas; understood Tascosa--today a historical monument--when it was home to crazy saloons, red-light areas, and a reasonable share of assault; and brought a posse of boys in search of Billy a Child and his gang.First printed in 1885, Siringo's log of his life as a scratchy-footed child, cowhand, variety investigator, and adventurer was one the very first classics concerning the Old West and assisted to romanticize the West and its myth of the American cowboy. May Rogers announced, "That was when I was growing up the Rubbishis Bible."