Five Years a Dragoon ('49 to '54 : and Other Adventures on the Great Plains)
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: February 1991
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780806110899
Subjects: Local history; Military - General; Kansas - Local History; History - Military / War; History: American; USA; General
First sentence: I HAD BEEN RAISED ON A FARM until fifteen; had been newsboy and sold papers about the streets of Lowell, Mass.; had been three years a sailor, including a whaling voyage, and learned the daguerreotype business in the gallery of Mr. Plumb on Washington Street, Boston, and became a first-class operator.