Thirty Years of Army Life on the Border 1866 - Couverture souple

Marcy, R. B.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1845743776 ISBN 13 : 9781845743772

Editeur : Naval & Military Press Ltd, 2007

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

American civilization will have taken possession of the land from the great river of the West to the very shores of the Pacific. It can not be entirely in vain that any one contributes that which he knows from personal experience, however little, to aid in preserving the memory of the people and the customs of the West in the middle of the nineteenth century. The wild animals that abound on the great plains to-day will soon be as unknown as the Indian hunters who have for centuries pursued them.. The world is fast filling up. I trust I am not in error when I venture to place some value, however small, on every thing which goes to form the truthful history of a condition of men incident to the advance of civilization over the continent a condition which forms peculiar types of character, produces remarkable developments of human nature a condition, also, which can hardly again exist on this or any other continent, and which has therefore especial value in the sum of human history. This is the only apology which I have to offer for the anecdotes of persons and the sketches of frontier life which I have ventured to make a part of this volume. Such people will probably not again be found in the future life of the race, and unless some record be made of them, it is by no means certain that generations to come will not regard them as solely the creatures of fiction, in whose pages they have for the most part hitherto been described.
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A fascinating personal account of three decades in the Wild West written by a professional US army officer, covering the years 1833 to the 1860s. The author describes his experiences of a wide range of peoples - including the Commanche and other Plains Indian tribes - the opening up of new territories across the Rocky Mountains; the hunting of bears and buffalo and a hostile account of the Mormons led by BRigham Young to their promised land in Utah. AN unvarnished but vivid personal account by a pioneer of the West in its wildest years, this book must not be missed by anyone interested in an exciting subject.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Naval & Military Press Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1845743776
• ISBN 13: 9781845743772
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 458