Adventures with Indians and Game (eBook)

Twenty Years in the Rocky Mountains

William A Allen (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
312 Seiten
Skyhorse Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5107-0030-7 (ISBN)

Infos

An adventure tale, historical memoir, and hunting journal in a single, enthralling narrative.At the tender age of seven, little William shot his first chipmunk and was imbued with the spirit of sportsmanship. In the following years of his colorful life, Allen wore many hats, living as a tracker, miner, blacksmith, gunsmith, prospector, freighter, and even dentist. Above all, however, was his passion for adventure, the hunt, and his dealings with Native Americans in the waning light of the late nineteenth century in Dakota Territory.A born observer, Allen describes a world that, by the time he wrote his book in 1903, no longer existed. Allens accounts of life in the frontier wildernesshunting otters and grizzly bears, a secondhand reflection on the tragedy of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, witnessing a battle between a rattlesnake and an eagle, and brutal fights and lifelong friendships with Sioux and Crow Indiansreflect a lost era of romantic heroism, untouched nature, and early Western sentiments, both antiquated and modern, toward Native Americans.Not only the thrilling memoir of one mans life, Adventures with Indians and Game is also a compendium of Western gamehow to track, hunt, and kill for entertainmentin a time when hunting for pleasure, rather than food, in the West was a foreign concept. As a pioneer in the field of hunting as a sport in the West, Allen provides a significant historical account of the spirit that spearheaded it.A teetotaler and man of his word, Allens narrative voice is strong, straightforward, and immediate, even though he died in 1944. Adventures with Indians and Game is a true-life adventure tale and hunting journal that promises an enthralling and eye-opening read.

Autor

Dr. William A. Allen (1848–1944) was an adventurer and sporting hunter who traveled around Montana Territory, chasing game and encountering Indians. As a close friend of Crow chief Plenty Coups for more than half a century, Allen eventually collaborated on his autobiography. Allen died in Billings, Montana.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.2.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Angeln / Jagd
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Sammeln / Sammlerkataloge
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: 1877 • 1882 • 36th • Allen • Billings • blacksmith • books on billings • books on blacksmiths • books on buffaloes • books on canyons • books on chipmunks • books on creeks • books on custers • books on deadwoods • books on deer • books on dentistries • books on dollars • books on emigrants • books on fires • books on forts • books on gunsmiths • books on hills • books on indians • books on mittens • books on ohios • books on pioneers • books on plains • books on pounds • books on rifles • books on saddles • books on savages • books on siouxes • books on sportsmanships • books on valleys • books on yards books on bozemen • Bozeman • buffalo • Canyon • Chipmunk • Creek • Custer • Deadwood • Deer • dentistry • Dollar • Emigrant • fires • Fort • gunsmith • Hills • Indians • mitten • Montana • Ohio • Pioneer • Plains • Pound • Rifles • saddles • savages • scalped • Sioux • spearfish • sportsmanship • swung • thither • Valley • yards
• ISBN-10: 1-5107-0030-7 / 1510700307
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5107-0030-7 / 9781510700307