Ben McCulloch and the Frontier Military TraditionUniv of North Carolina Press, 1993 - 402 էջ A protege of David Crockett and Sam Houston, Ben McCulloch (1811-62) led an extraordinary life as a frontiersman, entrepreneur, and soldier. This first modern biography tells his colorful life story and through his career illuminates mid-nineteenth-centur |
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Acknowledgments | |
A Knight of the Most Superior Class | 3 |
Good Soldiers in the Service of Their Country | 8 |
Look at Ben McCulloch He Is Running a Whole Gang of Them | 27 |
To Mier and Back | 46 |
The War Is Renewed | 63 |
In This Way We Did the Country Some Service | 91 |
California Is a Desirable Country | 104 |
Jeff Davis Does Not Intend to Give Me Show | 176 |
The Army of the West | 194 |
McCulloch Has Made a Clean Platter in Missouri | 219 |
A Campaign That Failed | 245 |
Masterspirit of the Army | 266 |
My God Its Old Ben | 290 |
I Leave My Soul to God Who Gave It and My Body to the State of Texas | 310 |
Notes | 317 |
The Marshals Baton | 120 |
Mission to Zion | 139 |
My Allegiance to the South | 160 |
Selected Bibliography | 369 |
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