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This is a way of making myself write something coherent and grammatically correct almost every day. I'm opinionated and need an outlet. I'm also prone to flights of fancy. Thanks for stopping by. |
| While Billy the Kid was a real person who became a legend, and his exploits were magnified by newspaper editors, Pecos Bill was a mythical cowboy. He was the biggest, the meanest, the fastest, the strongest, and all other superlatives of the wild west. His tales were told by word of mouth, before radio and TV, and were finally published in 1923 by Edward O'Reilly. Pecos Bill was known from Texas to California. His parents were traveling from Texas in the 1830's when he was only a few weeks old. There were 17 children in the family before him, and they needed more land around them. He ate a lot and grew fast. He could talk when he was only 1 month old, and teethed at 4 months on his Daddy's Bowie knife. At times, while his Ma was cooking, he'd slither away and wrestle a bear or other wild animal. When their wagon got close to a stream, baby Bill bounced out and fell into the stream and was carried away to swifter water, and then to the Pecos River. He had to teach himself to swim real fast to keep from drowning. That's where he got the name Pecos Bill. While he was drying off, a coyote came along. She took in the baby and raised him and for the next 15 years he ran with coyotes and howled at the moon. Meanwhile, his ma got sick with grief because he was never found, and she died. On his 16th birthday, his brother was rounding up longhorn cattle and spotted Bill on all fours running about a field. He said, "Aren't you my brother Bill?" "No, I'm a coyote." "How come you don't have a tail like a coyote?" "I don't know. But I have fleas. And I howl at the moon." "That doesn't mean anything. Everyone in Texas has fleas. And sometimes they howl at the moon. But you know how to talk. Coyotes can't talk." Well, that convinced Bill, So he went with his brother back to civilization where he made quite a name for himself. |
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