Download or read book Hidalgo and Other Stories written by Frank T. Hopkins and published by Long Riders Guild Press. This book was released on 2004-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Hopkin's remarkable career supposedly began when he became a dispatch rider for the U.S. government on his twelfth birthday in 1877. According to his mythology, this Renaissance Man of the Old West went on to work as a buffalo hunter, Indian fighter, African explorer, endurance racer, trick rider, bounty hunter, Rough Rider, big game guide, secret agent, Pinkerton detective and star of the Wild West show....he claimed to have won nearly 500 endurance races, including an imaginary race across Arabia on a mythical horse named "Hidalgo."