My Life on the Plains or Personal Experiences With Indians: Custer's Memoir of His Campaigns Against the Indian Tribes of the Western Plains - Couverture rigide

Custer, General George Armstrong

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1846779626 ISBN 13 : 9781846779626

Editeur : Leonaur Ltd, 2010

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The Galaxy, a brief description of the country in which these events transpired may not be deemed inappropriate. It is but a few years ago that every schoolboy, supposed to possess the rudiments of a knowledge of the geography of the United States, could give the boundaries and a general description of the Great American Desert. 3,to the boundary the knowledge seemed to be quite explicit: on the north bounded by the Upper Missouri, on the east by the Lower Missouri and Mississippi, on the south by Texas, and on the west by the Rocky Mountains. The boundaries on the northwest and south remained undisturbed, while on the east civilization, propelled and directed by Yankee enterprise, adopted the motto, Westward the star of empire takes its way. Countless throngs of emigrants crossed the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, selecting homes in the rich and fertile territories lying beyond. Each year this tide of emigration, strengthened and increased by the flow from foreign shores, advanced to Avard the setting sun, slowly but surely narrowing the preconceived limits of the Great American Desert, and correspondingly enlarging the limits of civilization. At last the geographical myth was dispelled. It was gradually discerned that the Great American Desert did not exist, that it had no abiding place, but that within its supposed limits, and instead of what had been regarded as a sterile and unfruitful tract of land, incapable of sustaining either man or beast, there existed the fairest and richest portion of the national domain, blessed with a climate pure, bracing, and healthful, while its undeveloped soil rivalled if it did not surpass the most productive portions of the Eastern, Middle, or Southern States. Discarding the name Great American Desert, this immense tract of country, with its eastern boundary moved back by civilization to a distance of nearly three hun
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Présentation de l'éditeur

A personal accounts of his encounters with Native Americans during the western Indian warfare of 1867-1869.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Leonaur Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1846779626
• ISBN 13: 9781846779626
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 452