With Crockett and Bowie or Fighting for the Lone-Star Flag

Excerpt from With Crockett and Bowie, or Fighting for the Lone-Star Flag: A Tale of Texas A boy and a horse, both breathing hard and trembling from recent exertions, stood gazing at each other dubiously, and each was wondering whether the struggle in which they had been engaged for the past two hours was to be resumed or not. The boy, who was a slender lad with a very determined expression on his sun-tanned face, was so covered with dirt and perspiration that it would have been hard to decide whether he was good looking or not. His close-cropped head was bare, for he had long since parted company with his broad-brimmed sombrero, his flannel shirt was soiled and torn, and even the stout trousers of homespun, tucked into the legs of heavy cowhide boots, bore sad traces of the recent fray. One side of his face was bruised and so swollen that the eye was nearly closed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.