| LC control no. | no 92026005 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Love, Nat, 1854-1921 |
| Biography/History note | Nat Love was a slave. |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1854-06 |
| Death date | 1921 |
| Place of birth | Davidson County (Tenn.) |
| Place of death | Los Angeles (Calif.) |
| Affiliation | Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Company |
| Profession or occupation | Cowboys Authors |
| Found in | The life and adventures of Nat Love, 1968. LC in OCLC, 10/21/92 (hdg.: Love, Nat, 1854-1921) African American National Biography, accessed February 19, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Love, Nat; slave, autobiographer/memoirist, cowboy; born June 1854 in Davidson County, Tennessee, United States; worked for three years on the ranch of Sam Duval in the Texas panhandle; was a cowboy on the giant Gallinger Ranch in southern Arizona (1872-1890); became an expert in identifying cattle brands and learned to speak fluent Spanish on trips to Mexico; secured employment with the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad as a Pullman car porter (1890); was a bank guard with the General Securities Company in Los Angeles (1907); wrote an autobiography The Life and Adventures of Nat Love, Better Known in the Cattle Country as “Deadwood Dick” that likely contained more than a bit of fiction; died 1921 in Los Angeles, California, United States) |
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