Description:
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. Published in 1907, the Life and Adventures of Nat Love would help to make Love a black folk hero of the Old West.
Brief description: Nat Love (1854-1921) was born on a plantation in Davidson County, Tennessee. After many years as a cow herder in the West, he retired to Los Angeles.