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Chargement... The Border and the Buffalo: An Untold Story of Southwest Plains : A Story of Mountain and Plainpar John R. Cook
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. This memoir details the life of John Cook from his time as a young soldier in the Union Army through his adventures in the west as a buffalo hunter. The details of his life and the opening of the west are enlightening. However, a modern reader might be shocked by the casual, thoughtless racism and the senseless slaughter of the animals. The more I think about this book the more disturbed I am. The Texas legislature delayed protections for the buffalo because the best way to get rid of the Indians was to exterminate the animals. Cook and others like him thought they were good people doing the right thing. He told how captured mustangs were managed by slashing their front knees so the fluid ran out and they were too lame to run away. He spoke of the taking of scalps by Indians and whites and the mutual slaughter. He said he couldn’t write about everything he lived through because it was too shocking. It leaves one wondering what horrors occurred that we will never know of. Not recommended for sensitive readers but vastly informative about early western life. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Appartient à la série éditorialeLakeside Classics (book 36)
John R. Cook was an American original. He witnessed or participated in a string of important events that shaped the nation and sculpted the history of the West. Born in Ohio in 1844, Cook moved with his family to Kansas. He joined the Union Army at sixteen and fought along the Kansas-Missouri border, in Indian Territory, and in Arkansas. After the Civil War, he ventured out to establish a homestead and work cattle. Several hardships forced Cook to try his luck at various enterprises. He became a prospector in New Mexico, a buffalo hunter in Texas and Kansas, and an Indian fighter. Santa Fe, Adobe Walls, Fort Elliot, and Rath City were among Cook's Great Plains haunts. His accounts of the 1878 Hunters War against Comanche leader Black Horse and the battle of Yellow House Canyon near present-day Lubbock are rare glimpses into the last great effort of the Comanche people to maintain their way of life. He eventually found employment as a government scout and guide with the army. In later years, Cook recorded his adventures in a modest volume, The Border and the Buffalo, first published in a small edition in 1907. Historians quickly recognized it as one of the most important first- hand accounts about buffalo hunting ever written. The organization of hunts, camp routines, and marketing of the buffalo hides are all described in detail. Award-winning author and Texas historian James L. Haley provides a new foreword in this reprint edition of this classic of Texana. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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