The Life and Adventures of Nat Love

<p><I>The Life and Adventures of Nat Love</I> (1907) is an autobiography by Nat Love. Written while Love was living in California the text is an invaluable record of the wildness of the American West in the final decades of the nineteenth century. Filled with tales of adventure and danger <I>The Life and Adventures of Nat Love</I> is a moving self portrait of a man who defied the circumstances of his birth and played a minor role in the transformation of the American landscape.</p><p>Born into slavery Nat Love is raised on a plantation in Tennessee alongside two siblings. Taught to read and write by his father Sampson Nat becomes resourceful and intelligent at a young age. Forced to work first as a slave and then after emancipation as a sharecropper Love dreams of escaping the South in order to make a name for himself. At 16 already well known as a breaker of horses he heads West for work as a cowboy. On the wide-open plains of Kansas he learns to shoot and survive with limited resources while fighting off rustlers and other nefarious characters. In Deadwood Dakota Territory 1876 Love wins a major rodeo competition and earns the nickname Deadwood Dick. Despite his successes Love is forced to continue his itinerant lifestyle and travels south into Arizona. Exciting and beautifully written <I>The Life and Adventures of Nat Love</I> is a record of the life of a forgotten American hero.</p><p>This edition of Nat Love's <I>The Life and Adventures of Nat Love</I> is a classic of African American literature reimagined for modern readers.</p> <p>Since our inception in 2020 <b>Mint Editions</b> has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover all while maintaining the integrity of the original book.</p> <p>With thousands of titles in our collection we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe.</p>