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Life Among The American Indians: Fifty Years On The Trail, A True Story Of Western Life

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O'Reilly, Harrington

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Fifty Years On The Trail: A True Story Of Western Life (1889)

Nelson, John Young

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Kessinger Publishing, LLC

Life Among The American Indians - Fifty Years On The Trial - A True Story Of Western Life - By H. O'Reilly - PREFACE - AN author who writes a long preface is a bore. I trust I shall not be voted an offender in this respect if I ask for a few moments the attention of my reader before he plunges into the story of John Y. Nelson, the man who is the subject of it. Living on thc fringc of civilisation as he has for over forty-five years, during the period of what may be termed its transition state,he has taken part in sceries and episodes such as could only have existed under the . esceptional circumstances of the opening up of a new country, and especially such a country as the Lvestern States of America. Many of these scenes and episodes have been far from creditable to the persons concerned in them, and some of them not creditable to John Nelson personally. I make no apology for him if any can be found, let it be in the fact that nearly every mans hand has been against him, and his, doubtless, more than it should have been, against every man. My object has been merely to give an unvarnished and circumstantial account of the existing events which have occurred to an individual whose position was no better than that...........

Life Among the American Indians: Fifty Years on the Trial: A True Story of Western Life

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Mitchell Pr

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 with 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 into the tribe. Here he learned how to live off the land and acquired the skills of a Sioux warrior. His adopted father was the Chief Spotted Tail and his brother-in-law was Red Cloud—Chief of the Sioux Nation. As a young Sioux brave, Nelson participated in Indian raids and skirmishes. Later, he guided Brigham Young and the first group of Mormon pioneers into the Salt Lake Valley in 1847, worked as a military scout with William F. Cody (Buffalo Bill), fought in the Indian Wars, and served as a lawman in North Dakota. In his many escapades he often narrowly escaped death from bullets, arrows, and knives. Nelson’s story is a fascinating view of the early American west in all its glory.

Fifty Years On The Trail: The True Story of John Y. Nelson, Frontiersman, Scout, and Guide

Nelson, John Y

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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 into the tribe. Here he learned how to live off the land and acquired the skills of a Sioux warrior. His adopted father was the Chief Spotted Tail and his brother-in-law was Red Cloud--Chief of the Sioux Nation. As a young Sioux brave, Nelson participated in Indian raids and skirmishes. Later, he guided Brigham Young and the first group of Mormon pioneers into the Salt Lake Valley in 1847, worked as a military scout with William F. Cody (Buffalo Bill), fought in the Indian Wars, and served as a lawman in North Dakota. In his many escapades he often narrowly escaped death from bullets, arrows, and knives. Nelson's story is a fascinating view of the early American west in all its glory.

Fifty Years On the Trail: The True Story of John Y. Nelson, Frontiersman, Scout, and Guide

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