John Y Nelson / Harrington O'Reilly
Fifty Years On the Trail
- Piccadilly Books, Ltd.
- 2018
- Taschenbuch
- 210 Seiten
- ISBN 9781936709212
This is the true story of John Young Nelson, an early American frontiersman, military scout, interpreter, guide, police chief, and saloon owner. Born in Virginia in 1826, Nelson ran away from home as a young teenager to escape a domineering father and to seek adventure in the west. He took odd jobs along the way working on farms, serving as a cabin boy on a Mississippi steamer, and becoming an apprentice with a group of traders traveling west from Missouri. After meeting a band of Sioux, he decided that the nomadic life of an Indian was the adventure he was looking for and got himself adopted
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