A LEGENDARY HERO : PECOS BILL

He is the legendary cowboy, cultural hero of the American West, Australia, and Argentine. Pecos Bill constitute a part of the saga of the cowboy. "The glory of the days when men were men and when imagination and wonder rode hand in hand to conquest and undying fame." He thought the cowboys know everything including their songs and oaths. About Pecos Bill there are many stories and they are the best examples of the old frontier days. Pecos Bill   is a gentleman at heart and direct his course by the common source. He represents the best and the most characteristic broad humor of America. The tales which belong to Pecos Bill are the vital examples of broad humor of America. The virgin frontier expanded the imagination of the first settlers. The leadership of the life developed their self-reliance.

PECOS BILL BECOMES A COYOTE

Pecos Bill's family was migrating westward through Texas in the early days in an old wagon. His parents were riding in the front seats and his father was driving. The eighteen children in the back of the wagon were making a pretty noise.

Just as the wagon was rattling down to the ford across the Pecos River, Pecos fell down from the wagon. He was only four years old and he laid dazed  until the wagon had crossed the river. At lunch ,his mother noticed that Bill was missing. The last one who had seen him remembered  that he was in the river.

Mother and eight or ten children hurried back to the river and hunted everywhere but they could not find the lost boy. When evening came, they were going back to the wagon and then continued their journey without the missing boy. Ever after  when they thought about Bill, they remembered the river, so they naturally came to speak of him as Pecos Bill.

What had happened to Bill was this. A few hours later he was found by a wise, old  coyote,  who was the leader of  the Loyal and Approved Packs of the Pecos and Rio Grande valleys. His followers called him Grandy. When he accidentally met Bill , Grandy was curious but shy. After a while he came quite near and waited to see what the boy would do. He said "what a nice crop-ear you are." And so often the Coyotes called the child Crop-ear.

Here far away from the nearest human dwelling Grandy  made a home for Crop-ear and taught him all the knowledge of outdoors. He taught Crop-ear many signal calls and the code of right and wrong and loyalty to the leader and above all he instructed him in the silent so that he could see all that was going on around him without being seen. Grandy took pains to introduce Crop-ear to each of the animals and made every one of them promise he would not harm to the growing man-child. The vigorous exercise ,the fresh air and the constant sunlight helped him to become the healthiest, strongest and the most active boy in the world.

All the time Crop-ear was growing up with the belief  that he was a full-blooded Coyote. Long before that he had grown up to manhood, he learned to understand the language of every creeping, hooping, walking and flying creature.

The Loyal and Approved  Packs were proud that they had made a man-child into a noble coyote. They were also proud that they had thought him to believe the Human Race to a greater extend than any other race of animals. Just what the Human Race was Crop-ear never knew, however. For Grandy, kept him far away from the cowboy's trails.

Then one day Grandy went out alone to hunt and  did not return. Everyone knew that he had gone down through the long, long trails that has no turning. There was no longer need for anyone to help Crop-ear.

Pecos Bill had the strangest and the most exiting experience any boy ever had. He became  a member of   pack of wild coyotes. Later, he discovered that he was a human being and very shortly thereafter became the greatest cowboy of all times.