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Show Pecos Bill, Super -Cow&oy It is natural that the Texas cowboy, cow-boy, who has known the feeling of the earth and sky while tending the herds during round-ups and drives, should create a mythical super-cowboy to talk about around the chuck wagon and the bunkhouse. That's how Pecos Bill came into existence. There are various accounts of Pecos Bill's birth, but any puncher will declare with a great deal of pride that the hero was born in Texas. While his family was moving mov-ing west, Bill dropped out of the wagon. Since there were 17 or 18 other children in the wagon, Bill's ma and pa didn't miss him for two or three days. Then it was too late to turn around and go back to look for him. But Bill didn't 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 few pets around his shack he invented centipedes and tarantulas. He used mountain lions for saddle horses. . p7f;ng"V bet' P"s Bill mount-ed mount-ed an Oklahoma cyclone and traveled trav-eled across three states. Mountains From this jaunt there emerged the reeless Texas Panhandle. bTh was throwed" when the cyclone "rain ed out from under him." |