Adventures of Big-Foot Wallace (eBook)

The Texas Ranger and Hunter

John C. Duval (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2015
304 Seiten
Skyhorse Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-62914-852-6 (ISBN)

Infos

The thrilling adventures of traveler, rancher, and fighter Big-Foot Wallace in a bygone era of the American frontier.Amid the embroiling conflicts of frontiersmen, Mexicans, and war in Texas, 1837, William Big-Foot Wallace left his hometown of Virginia to avenge the deaths of his brother and cousin, soldiers executed by Mexicans. Upon joining the Texas Rangers, Wallace was swept into the clashes at Salado Creek, Hondo River, and the Battle of Monterrey during the Mexican-American War.Measuring at 6 feet 2 inches tall and weighing 240 pounds, Big-Foot Wallace embodied the iron nerves and indomitable spirit of the Texan frontiersman. In one of his most famous and harrowing experiences during the Mier expedition, Wallace was captured by the Mexican army, blindfolded, and forced to draw from a pot of black and white beans to determine whether he would be imprisoned or executed. Wallace drew a white bean and lived. After the war, he returned from the wilderness to clean, civilized Virginia, and spent the rest of his days as a storytelling, yarn-spinning rancher.John Duval, fellow Texas Ranger and Wallaces best friend, gives a thrilling but factual account of the mans life in a simple but engaging narrative style, combining action, suspense, and dry Texan humor. Wallaces hairbreadth escapes and larger-than-life story are the perfect representation of the Old West in all its perils, comedy, and romance.Skyhorse Publishing, along with our Arcade, Good Books, Sports Publishing, and Yucca imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs. Our list includes biographies on well-known historical figures like Benjamin Franklin, Nelson Mandela, and Alexander Graham Bell, as well as villains from history, such as Heinrich Himmler, John Wayne Gacy, and O. J. Simpson. We have also published survivor stories of World War II, memoirs about overcoming adversity, first-hand tales of adventure, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Autor

John C. Duval was born in 1816 to a distinguished family in Kentucky. Upon meeting fellow Texas Ranger Big-Foot Wallace, the two became fast friends. Duval went on to fight for the South in the Civil War, and retired to a backyard cabin in Texas to live out the remainder of his life as a surveyor and prospector, often visiting Wallace to talk about the old days. Duval wrote extensively about the nostalgia of the Old West, and was called the “first Texas man of letters.” Duval died in Fort Worth, Texas, in 1897, two years before Wallace.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.2.2015
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Schlagworte: 1836 • 98th • America • Antonio • barbed wire • barb wire • barret • books on border patrols • books on charleston • books on comanches • books on connecticut • books on fredericksburg book • books on frontiersmen • books on gators • books on goliad • books on joes • books on meridian • books on pioneers • books on plains indians • books on plains lives • books on six-shooters • books on texas rangers • books on timbers • books on windmills • books on wire fences • Border Patrol • cattle industry • Charleston • Civil War • comanches • Connecticut • Daniel Boone • Deer • encamped • fault line • flacco • Ford • Fredericksburg • Frontier • frontiersman • Frontiersmen • gator alamo • goliad • grow crops • growing crops • Joes • legal developments • mammy • Meridian • mexicans • Mexico • mier • mounted • Pioneers • plains indians • plains life • Prescott • Rio Grande • Santa Fe • Semi-arid • Shenandoah • six-shooters • surveyor • Tennessee • Texas • texas history • Texas Rangers • timber • timbered • to-day • Travis • Trudeau • Untold • Wallace • Water Rights • webbs • webb wrote • Western History • Westward Expansion • Windmills • wire fence • Woll
• ISBN-10: 1-62914-852-0 / 1629148520
• ISBN-13: 978-1-62914-852-6 / 9781629148526