Название: Comanche Jack Stilwell: Army Scout and Plainsman
Автор: Clint E. Chambers, Paul H. Carlson
Издательство: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806162783
Год: 2019
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 295
Для сайта: litgu.ru
Размер: 12,1 МБ
Язык: Английский
In 1863, the thirteen-year-old boy who would come to be called Comanche Jack was sent to the well to fetch water. Instead, he joined a wagon train bound for Santa Fe. Thus began the exploits of Simpson E. “Jack” Stilwell (1850–1903), a man generally known for slipping through Indian lines to get help for some fifty frontiersmen besieged by the Cheyenne at Beecher Island in 1868. Daring as his part in the rescue might have been, it was only one noteworthy episode of many in Comanche Jack Stilwell’s life—a life whose rollicking story is finally told here in full.
In his later years, Stilwell crafted his own legend as a celebrated raconteur. Authors Clint E. Chambers (whose grandfather was Stilwell’s nephew) and Paul H. Carlson scour the available primary and secondary sources to find the unvarnished truth and remarkable facts behind the legend.