Cattle rustler to pulpit crime preacher ranching smuggler biography Texas 1943 s

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From Cattle Rustler to Pulpit.  By Leonard King.  Red cloth hardcover, pub. 1943 by the Naylor Company (a vanity press) in San Antonio.  Inscribed by author.  Good condition, no dust jacket, light shelf wear, 216 pages.  The autobiography of a self-confessed cattle thief, smuggler, cowboy and later a minister of the gospel.  He also served as a trooper in the 3rd U.S. Cavalry during WWI.  Some of the dialog and actions are rather embellished and fanciful which is usual for many vanity press printings.  Shipping weight just over 1 pound.