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Time in the Wilderness - The Formative Years of John "Black Jack" Pershing in the American West (Hardcover)
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Time in the Wilderness - The Formative Years of John "Black Jack" Pershing in the American West (Hardcover)
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Most Americans familiar with General John J. "Black Jack" Pershing
know him as the commander of American Expeditionary Forces in
Europe during the latter days of World War I. But Pershing was in
his late fifties by then. Pershing's military career began in 1886,
with his graduation from West Point and his first assignments in
the American West as a horsebound cavalry officer during the final
days of Apache resistance in the Southwest, where Arizona and New
Mexico still represented a frontier of blue-clad soldiers, Native
Americans, cowboys, rustlers, and miners. But the Southwest was
just the beginning of Pershing's West. He would see assignments
over the years in the Dakotas, during the Ghost Dance uprising and
the battle of Wounded Knee; a posting at Montana's Fort
Assiniboine; and, following his years in Asia, a return to the West
with a posting at the Presidio in San Francisco and a prolonged
assignment on the Mexican-American border in El Paso, which led to
his command of the Punitive Expedition, tasked with riding deep
into Northern Mexico to capture the pistolero Pancho Villa. During
those thirty years from West Point to the Western Front, Pershing
had a colorful and varied military career, including action during
the Spanish-American War and lengthy service in the Philippines.
Both were new versions of the American frontier abroad, even as the
frontier days of the American West were closing. All of Pershing's
experiences in the American West prepared himfor his ultimate
assignment as the top American commander during the Great War. If
the American frontier and, more broadly, the American West provided
a cauldron in which Americans tested themselves during the
nineteenth century, the same is true for John Pershing. His story
is a historical Western.
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