J. W. Wilbarger
Autore di Indian Depredations in Texas
Sull'Autore
Opere di J. W. Wilbarger
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Wilbarger, John Wesley
- Sesso
- male
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Recensioni
Statistiche
- Opere
- 2
- Utenti
- 56
- Popolarità
- #291,557
- Voto
- 3.5
- Recensioni
- 2
- ISBN
- 10
Wilbarger, a pioneer who had emigrated to Texas in 1837, was fully aware of the dangers that he faced by living on the frontier of the American West as his own brother had miraculously survived being scalped and left for dead in 1833.
Over the course of the next fifty years Wilbarger compiled accounts of Native American attacks that formed the basis of his book. Yet, rather than simply relying on hearsay and rumors of attacks, he sought out the victims and as he states in his Preface, many of the articles had been “written by others, who were either cognizant of the facts themselves or had obtained them from reliable sources."… (altro)