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The story of America's cavalry is extraordinarily rich in
colourful, and often flamboyant, personalities and exciting action.
Indeed, much of the early military history of the United States is
dominated by the exploits of its horse-soldiers. In this
comprehensive and lively account, the author - who was himself an
enthusiastic horseman - narrates the major events and characters of
the US Cavalry's formative, and, some might say fruitful, years.
From the American Revolution and the exploits of men such as Henry
'Light-Horse Harry' Lee III and Francis Marion, the first of the
guerrillas, the author follows on with Stephen Kearny, the 'Father
of the Cavalry' whose Dragoons went West to California on mules,
and his nephew Philip, who organized the famed Gray Horse Troop of
the Mexican War. Other famous names that feature in this narrative
are those of Jonathan 'Stonewall' Jackson, George Crook, who
admired the Indians it was his duty to hunt down, and George
Armstrong Custer. A United States Army officer and cavalry
commander who served with distinction in the American Civil War,
Custer is most commonly remembered for leading more than 200 of his
men to their deaths in the Battle of the Little Bighorn in June
1876\. Also known as 'Custer's Last Stand', Bighorn was part of the
Black Hills War against a confederation of Plains Indians,
including the Cheyenne and Dakota Sioux. It remains one of the most
controversial battles in American history. Roosevelt's Roughriders
and Black Jack Pershing, who led his troops in an automobile,
complete the narrative - one which is undoubtedly a saga of daring
raids, of epic marches, and of gruelling battles. As the author
reveals, the story of the US Cavalry is also the story of the birth
and growth of America itself.
This is a new release of the original 1951 edition.
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This tale of Dick Wormser's career reveals the trials and wonders
of the world of pulp fiction in the thirties, as well as the
travails and triumphs of Hollywood writers in the forties and
fifties. He wrote short stories for The Shadow and other action
magazines, and was named by Street & Smith to revive Nick
Carter, for which he wrote a 60,000-word novel every two weeks
until they had enough backlog to make it a semi-monthly. Hired and
fired twice by Harry Cohn at Columbia Pictures, he toiled at
Republic and Universal writing screenplays, that became mostly B
movies-some good some bad. He was one of Ray Stark's earliest
clients, before Ray made the transition to one of the industry's
premier producers. During World War II, he served as Forest Ranger,
patrolling the coast of Southern California on horseback. Dick made
his living writing-producing an amazing output: three hundred short
stories, two hundred novelettes, a dozen books, about twice that
many serials. His oeuvre included mysteries, Westerns, juveniles,
histories and even a cookbook Southwest American Cooking, or Home
on the Range.
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