Five years a dragoon ('49 to '54) and other adventures on the Great Plains / With an introd. and notes by Don Russell.

• Enlistment and first assignment -- The first two years -- Campaigns of 1852-53 -- From soldier to civilian -- At Fort Riley -- The Kansas War of 1856 -- The Cheyenne expedition -- Mule trains to Utah -- Private business and government service -- Freighter and contractor.

• Lowe's accounts, which vividly portray the life of a recruit and a civilian during a stirring period of national development, have often been quoted by historians writing of the mid-nineteenth century. Long time out of print and almost unknown, the book has been issued in this new edition so that it may be read, not merely referred to. 

Ämnesord

Kavalleri  (sao)

Travel.  (fast)

Armed Forces  -- Military life. (fast)

Cavalry  (LCSH)

Great Plains  -- Description and travel. (LCSH)

Great Plains.  (fast)

Institutionsnamn

United States. Army. Cavalry, 1st.

United States. Army -- Military life.

United States. Army.

United States. Army. Cavalry, 1st.

Klassifikation

F593 (LCC)

F593 (LAC)

917.8 (DDC)

Nqae (kssb/8 (machine generated))