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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Great Lone Land A Narrative of Travel and Adventure in the North-West of Americadi William Francis Butler
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![]() Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. ![]() ![]() This was a magnificent tale of real-life travel in the North America of the 1870s. Trains and boats, horses and feet were the mode of transport. A landscape unrecognisable today (I'd imagine), as the native Americans still roamed free on the open prairie of the Mid West, and the lunatic rebel thrown in for good measure. And, it is all real. Beware of some OCR problems though. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
An Irish officer in the British army, William Francis Butler (1838-1910) travelled widely during a career which took him from India to Africa. In 1867 he made for Canada with his regiment, and he recalls his adventures in this lively account, first published in 1872 to immediate success, and followed by this second edition in the same year. The book covers Butler's risky reconnaissance mission during the Red River Rebellion, during which he met the Métis leader Louis Riel. Later chapters describe subsequent journeys into the sparsely populated Manitoba and Saskatchewan territories, as well as the US states of Illinois, Minnesota and North Dakota. In vivid detail, Butler describes the landscapes and peoples he encountered, including many Native American tribes. This region of North America was later transformed by an influx of settlers, and Butler's work captures the final days of what was then an underexplored wilderness. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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