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Holt Collier is best known as the guide wholed President Roosevelt on the historic bear hunt that resulted in the namingof the Teddy bear. In his younger days, Holt's adventures were extremely risky.From his days as a scout in the Civil War to the time he helped break up a gangof Mississippi River pirates, he always had a thirst for high adventure. And healways knew how to handle the danger.Holt and the Cowboys is the story of a Mississippi-born slavewho finds himself on the Texas prairie after the Civil War. Befriended duringthe war by famous general and later Texas governor,