Thirty One Years On The Plains And In The Mountains Or The Last Voice From The Plains An Authentic Record Of The Life Time Of Hunting Trapping Sco

Author : William F Drannan
Publisher : Nabu Press
ISBN 13 : 9781294401094
Total Pages : 740 pages
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Author : William F. Drannan
Publisher : Sagwan Press
ISBN 13 : 9781376701203
Total Pages : 740 pages
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Download or read book Thirty-One Years on the Plains and in the Mountains = the Last Voice from the Plains: An Authentic Record of a Life Time of Hunting, Trapping, Scoutin written by William F. Drannan and published by Sagwan Press. This book was released on 2018-02-04 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : William F. 1832-1913 Drannan
Publisher : Wentworth Press
ISBN 13 : 9781363833726
Total Pages : 746 pages
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Download or read book 30-1 YEARS ON THE PLAINS & IN written by William F. 1832-1913 Drannan and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-27 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : William F. Drannan
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781722453237
Total Pages : 272 pages
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Download or read book Thirty-One Years on the Plains and in the Mountains, Or, the Last Voice from the Plains an Authentic Record of a Life Time of Hunting, Trapping, Scouting and Indian Fighting in the Far West written by William F. Drannan and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-07 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty-One Years on the Plains and in the Mountains, Or, the Last Voice from the Plains An Authentic Record of a Life Time of Hunting, Trapping, Scouting and Indian Fighting in the Far West By William F. Drannan CHAPTER I. A BOY ESCAPES A TYRANT AND PAYS A DEBT WITH A HORNET'S NEST-MEETS KIT CARSON AND BECOMES THE OWNER OF A PONY AND A GUN. The old saying that truth is stranger than fiction is emphasized in the life of every man whose career has been one of adventure and danger in the pursuit of a livelihood. Knowing nothing of the art of fiction and but little of any sort of literature; having been brought up in the severe school of nature, which is all truth, and having had as instructor in my calling a man who was singularly and famously truthful, truth has been my inheritance and in this book I bequeath it to my readers. My name is William F. Drannan, and I was born on the Atlantic ocean January 30, 1832, while my parents were emigrating from France to the United States. They settled in Tennessee, near Nashville, and lived upon a farm until I was about four years old. An epidemic of cholera prevailed in that region for some months during that time and my parents died of the dread disease, leaving myself and a little sister, seven months old, orphans. I have never known what became of my sister, nor do I know how I came to fall into the hands of a man named Drake, having been too young at that time to remember now the causes of happenings then. However, I remained with this man, Drake, on his plantation near The Hermitage, the home of Gen. Andrew Jackson, until I was fifteen Drake was a bachelor who owned a large number of negro slaves, and I was brought up to the age mentioned among the negro children of the place, without schooling, but cuffed and knocked about more like a worthless puppy than as if I were a human child. I never saw the inside of a school-house, nor was I taught at home anything of value. Drake never even undertook to teach me the difference between good and evil, and my only associates were the little negro boys that belonged to Drake, or the neighbors. The only person who offered to control or correct me was an old negro woman, who so far from being the revered and beloved "Black Mammy," remembered with deep affection by many southern men and women, was simply a hideous black tyrant. She abused me shamefully, and I was punished by her not only for my own performances that displeased her, but for all the meanness done by the negro boys under her jurisdiction.Naturally these negro boys quickly learned that they could escape punishment by falsely imputing to me all of their mischief and I was their scape-goat. Often Drake's negro boys went over to General Jackson's plantation to play with the negro boys over there and I frequently accompanied them. One day the old General asked me why I did not go to school. But I could not tell him. I did not know why. I have known since that I was not told to go and anyone knows that a boy just growing up loose, as I was, is not likely to go to school of his own accord. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experien

Author : Library of Congress
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Total Pages : 624 pages
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Author : William F. Drannan
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781340815035
Total Pages : 742 pages
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Download or read book Thirty-One Years on the Plains and in the Mountains written by William F. Drannan and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-08-31 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : William F. 1832-1913 Drannan
Publisher : Wentworth Press
ISBN 13 : 9781373389824
Total Pages : 734 pages
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Download or read book 30-1 YEARS ON THE PLAINS & IN written by William F. 1832-1913 Drannan and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-29 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : William Drannan
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Total Pages : 492 pages
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Download or read book Thirty-One Years on the Plains and in the Mountains written by William Drannan and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-05 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you like your tales tall & two-fisted, then this is the one for you. "31 years ..." is an interesting first-person account of the plainsmen and mountaineers of the early and mid-19th century. Drannan's journey takes him through Missouri, Kansas, Colorado and New Mexico well before these territories became states. The list of characters reads like a who's who of the territories east of the Rockies in the early 19th century. Those luminaries encountered by Drannan include the following: General John Charles Fremont, Kit Carson, Johnnie West, Jim Bridger, Charlie Jones, Jake Harrington and the notorious Taos Mountain Phil (aka "American Cannibal"). Throw into the mix a varied selection of indigenous people and you have hours of enjoyable reading. We, at Notoir Books, are fond of stories larger than life. This book is like the guy in the pub next to you, rambling one semi-tall yarn after the other. His view on the indians is telling. They act savagely to be sure and the immigrant wagon trains needed to be protected, but Drannan mentions murdering the members of war parties as they sleep and scalping the dead and wiping out bands as casually as brushing some dust off his fringe-jacket. Modern readers should try not to whine about insensibilities too much, but rather try to see it as the author did at the time it was written. It was a different world then, with lots of things done very differently than would happen now. While not polished, Pulitzer-winning writing, it gives us a raw in-your-face view of the good old frontier life. Notoir Books is a publisher of new old books on topics of esoteric interests, eccentric memoirs, overlooked history, otherworldly stories and distinctive voices. You can visit notoirbooks.com for more.

Author : William Drannan
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ISBN 13 : 9781517784683
Total Pages : 310 pages
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