Time in the Wilderness: The Formative Years of John Black Jack Pershing in the American West McNeese Tim
Time in the Wilderness: The Formative Years of John Black Jack Pershing in the American West McNeese Tim Nebraska Book Award, Biography HonorMost Americans familiar with General John J. But Pershing…
Specifikacia Time in the Wilderness: The Formative Years of John Black Jack Pershing in the American West McNeese Tim
Time in the Wilderness: The Formative Years of John Black Jack Pershing in the American West McNeese Tim
Nebraska Book Award, Biography HonorMost Americans familiar with General John J. But Pershing was in his late fifties by then. "Black Jack" Pershing know him as the commander of American Expeditionary Forces in Europe during the latter days of World War I.
He would see assignments over the years in the Dakotas, during the Ghost Dance uprising and the battle of Wounded Knee; a posting at Montana's Fort Assiniboine; and, following his years in Asia, a return to the West with a Pershing's military career began in 1886, with his graduation from West Point and his first assignments in the American West as a horsebound cavalry officer during the final days of Apache resistance in the Southwest, where Arizona and New Mexico still represented a frontier of blue-clad soldiers, Native Americans, cowboys, rustlers, and miners.But the Southwest was just the beginning of Pershing's West.
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