Descrizione
Frederick Ritchie Bechdolt, born in Pennsylvania on July 27, 1873, was an American novelist and writer. He wrote more than a hundred novels and stories and is known for his fact-based stories chronicling dramatic incidents in the lives of the old-timers of the Wild West. Among his most famous works we must mention The Hard Rock Man (1910), When the West was young (1922), Tales of the Old-timers (1924), Giants of the Old West (1930) and Riders of the San Pedro (1931). He died in Carmel by the Sea, Monterey County, California, on April 21, 1950. His novel The First Cowboy, set in Texas, was published in November 1922 in Adventure Magazine.
«In the days when Texas was a nation, when farmer boys along the Trinity and Brazos were carrying rifles to their evening chores for fear of lurking Indians and the men of the Southwestern settlements were constantly under arms against invading Mexicans, a number of young fellows drifted down into the country between the lower Nueces and the Rio Grande. The most of them had lost their fathers at the Alamo and in the massacre of Fannin’s men at Goliad. They came hither to seek adventure and to make their livings, two projects which were at that time compatible».
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