Five Years a Cavalryman

Name: Five Years a Cavalryman
Brand: University of Oklahoma Press
SKU: 9780806128177
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Or, Sketches of Regular Army Life on the Texas Frontier, 1866-1871

Autor: H. H. McConnell

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Editura: University of Oklahoma Press

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First published in 1889, H. H. McConnell's Five Years a Cavalryman remains one of the best accounts...

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Autor

H. H. McConnell

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Carte broșată

Publicat

1996

Pagini

318

EAN

9780806128177

ISBN

0806128178

Enbook ID

11524533

Editura

University of Oklahoma Press

Greutate

350

Dimensiuni

127 x 203 x 18

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First published in 1889, H. H. McConnell's Five Years a Cavalryman remains one of the best accounts of what it was like to be an ordinary cavalryman on the post-Civil War frontier. Posted for five years (1866-1871) with the Sixth U.S. Cavalry at Fort Belknap and Fort Richardson, in West Texas, McConnell gives the unglorified inside story on his fellow enlisted men and the officers, reporting candidly on the heavy drinking, their general disorganization, their boredom and their thievery. Regarding the Texas Rangers, he admits that they might be tolerable Indian fighters, but in frontier towns, where they would engage in "shooting scrapes and rows" with its citizens and soldiers, they were more a threat to peace than keepers of the same. His tolerant attitude toward Native Americans is evident in his coverage of the arrest and trial of Satanta, Big Tree, and other Kiowas at Fort Sill, in which he grants that General William Sherman's concurrent visit to the post negatively affected their trial. In the foreword to this edition, William H. Leckie summarizes McConnell's frontier career and discusses his attitude toward the Tenth Cavalry "buffalo soldiers", the Texas Rangers, and officers such as Colonel Ranald MacKenzie.

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Or, Sketches of Regular Army Life on the Texas Frontier, 1866-1871

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