Show irocus ibi battol Mat 10 TOl it is natural that the texas cowboy who has known the feeling of 0 the earth and sky while tending the herds during roundups round ups and drives should create a mythical super cow boy to talk about around the chuck wagon and the bunkhouse how pecos bill carne came into existence there ar are e various accounts of pecos bills birth but any puncher will declare with a great deal of pride that the hero was born in texas while his family was moving west DID bill dropped out of the wagon since there were 17 or 18 other children Ten in the wagon bills m ma and pa miss him for two or three da days y s then pien it was too late to turn around and go back to look for him but bill starve the coyotes so goes the legend took him up and raised him As he grew he became so terrific that whenever the rattlesnakes heard him coming they hid in the cactus because his bite might poison them feeling that he needed a lew few pets around his shack he be invented centipedes and tarantulas he used mountain lions for saddle horses taking up a bet pecos ball mounted an oklahoma cyclone and traveled across three states mountains were leveled and forests uprooted from this jaunt there emerged the treeless texas panhandle bill wa was a th rowed when the cyclone rained out from under him |