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[1980] c1885
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"A Texas Cowboy" was one of the first true looks into life as a cowboy. Its author, Charles A. Siringo, was born in Dodge City, Kansas and at the age of 15 started working on local ranches as a cowboy and participated over the course of his ranching career in many cattle drives. A highly influential work that romanticized the life of a cowboy and the Old West, Siringo's book tells an autobiographical account of riding the famous Chisholm Trail and...
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The stalwart men of the Prussian army, the Lancers, the Dragoons, the Hussars, the clank of their sabres on the pavements, their brilliant uniforms, all made an impression upon my romantic mind, and I listened eagerly, in the quiet evenings, to tales of Hanover under King George, to stories of battles lost, and the entry of the Prussians into the old Residenz-stadt; the flight of the King, and the sorrow and chagrin which prevailed. For I was living...
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[1981], c1980
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Randolph Marcy was one of the great unsung explorers of the American Western frontiers in the 19th century. He escorted emigrants, and led numerous exploring and surveying expeditions. As a result of the writing ability he evidenced in his official reports of his frontier explorations, he was asked by the War Department to prepare this guidebook for emigrants to the west. It was published in 1959.
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