Life and adventures of "Billy" Dixon of Adobe Walls, Texas panhandle
CHAPTER II.
Dixon's Birth and Boyhood--Death of His Parents--From West Virginia to Home of Uncle in Missouri--Lured by Romance of Plains, the Boy Starts in Search of Adventure--Reaches Leavenworth, Kas., and Becomes a Bull-Whacker--Across the Plains--Hires to Farmer McCall 17