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- Author: Charles King
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- ISBN-10: 1517125200
- ISBN-13: 9781517125202
- Format: 18.9 x 24.6 x 1 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English
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Excerpt from Campaigning With Crook and Stories of Army Life
Ten years ago, at the request of the editor of a paper at my old home, these sketches of the Sioux Campaign of 1876 were written and, finding favor with comrades to whom a few were sent, were published in pamphlet form. Now, reinforced by certain other sketches which have since appeared, they are given a new framework.
They were the first-fruits, so to speak, of a pen that has since been seldom idle. They were rough sketches, to be sure, but no rougher than the campaign; and in the early days of a divorce from associations that were very dear, and of a return to surroundings once familiar, yet, after twenty years of absence, so changed that a cat in a strange garret could hardly have felt less at home, I laid their faint tribute of respect and honor at the feet of the soldier who had been our commander in the wild days in Arizona, our leader from the Platte to the Yellowstone and our comrade in every hardship and privation - Brigadier-General George Crook, United States Army.
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- Author: Charles King
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- ISBN-10: 1517125200
- ISBN-13: 9781517125202
- Format: 18.9 x 24.6 x 1 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English English
Excerpt from Campaigning With Crook and Stories of Army Life
Ten years ago, at the request of the editor of a paper at my old home, these sketches of the Sioux Campaign of 1876 were written and, finding favor with comrades to whom a few were sent, were published in pamphlet form. Now, reinforced by certain other sketches which have since appeared, they are given a new framework.
They were the first-fruits, so to speak, of a pen that has since been seldom idle. They were rough sketches, to be sure, but no rougher than the campaign; and in the early days of a divorce from associations that were very dear, and of a return to surroundings once familiar, yet, after twenty years of absence, so changed that a cat in a strange garret could hardly have felt less at home, I laid their faint tribute of respect and honor at the feet of the soldier who had been our commander in the wild days in Arizona, our leader from the Platte to the Yellowstone and our comrade in every hardship and privation - Brigadier-General George Crook, United States Army.
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