Drannan, William F., 1832-1913 / 2008-06-15 00:00:00
EBOOK, THIRTY-ONE YEARS ON THE PLAINS AND IN THE MOUNTAINS ***
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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
CAPT. WILLIAM F. DRANNAN,
WHO WENT ON TO THE PLAINS WHEN FIFTEEN YEARS OLD.
PREFACE.
In writing this preface I do so with the full knowledge that the
preface of a book is rarely read, comparatively speaking, but I
shall write this one just the same.
In writing this work the author has made no attempt at romance, or
a great literary production, but has narrated in his own plain,
blunt way, the incidents of his life as they actually occurred.
There have been so many books put upon the market, purporting to
be the lives of noted frontiersmen which are only fiction, that I
am moved to ask the reader to consider well before condemning this
book as such.
The author starts out with the most notable events of his boyhood
days, among them his troubles with an old negro virago, wherein he
gets his revenge by throwing a nest of lively hornets under her
feet. Then come his flight and a trip, to St. Louis, hundreds of
miles on foot, his accidental meeting with that most eminent man
of his class, Kit Carson, who takes the lad into his care and
treats him as a kind father would a son.
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