Nat Love also known as  Deadwood Dick was an African American cowboy following the Civil war.He had an older brother name Jordan and an older sister name Sally. He wrote his autobiography in 1907 called Life and Adventures Nat Love. In his autobiography  he told how his father was a slave foreman in the fields and his mother manage in the kitchen. 

Nat was born a slave in Tennessee on June 1854. When slavery ended Sampson attempted to start a  family farm to raise tobacco and corn but he died shortly after the second crop was planted. Nat then took a job working on a local farm to help make end meet.