Show I II Pecos Bill BiRi Super Cowboy It is natural that the Texas cow- cow who has known the feeling of the earth and sky while tending the herds during ups round and drives should create a mythical super super cow cowboy cow cow- boy to talk about around the chuck wagon and the bunkhouse That's how Pecos Bill came into existence There are various accounts of Pecos Bills Bill's birth but any puncher will declare with a great deal of pride that the hero was born In Texas While White his family was moving moving moving ing west Bill dropped out of the wagon Since there were 17 or 18 other children in the wagon Bills Bill's ma and pa didn't miss him for two or three days Then it was too late to turn around and go ba back ck to look for him But Bill didn't starve The coyotes so so goes the legend legend took took him up and raised him As he grew he beca became e so terrific that whenever the I rattlesnakes heard him coming I they hid in the cactus because his I bite might poison them Feeling that he needed a few pets around his I shack he invented centipedes and tarantulas He used mountain lions for or saddle horses Taking up a bet bet Pecos Bill mounted mount mount- ed an Oklahoma cyclone and traveled traveled trav trav- across three states Mountains s were leveled and forests uprooted From this jaunt there emerged the Si treeless Texas Panhandle Bill wa was s when the cyclone rain cd d out from under him |