Time and Reality in the Thought of the Maya: Volume 190 (The Civilization of the American Indian Series) - Softcover

Miguel León-Portilla (author)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0806123087 ISBN 13: 9780806123080

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press, 1990

Synopsis

This famous memoir by John McCorkle, reissued for the first time, is the best published account by a scout who "rode with Quantrill." John McCorkle was a young Missouri farmer of Southern sympathies. After serving briefly in the pro-Confederate Missouri State Guard, he became a prominent member of William Clarke Quantrill’s infamous guerrillas, who took advantage of the turmoil in the Missouri-Kansas borderland to prey on pro-Union people.McCorkle displayed an unflinchingly violent nature while he participated in raids and engagements including the massacres at Lawrence and Baxter Springs, Kansas, and Centralia, Missouri. In 1865 he followed Quantrill into Kentucky, where the notorious leader was killed and his followers, McCorkle among them, surrendered and were paroled by Union authorities. Early in this century, having returned to farming, McCorkle told his remarkable Civil War experiences to O.S. Barton, a lawyer, who wrote this book, first published in 1914.

About this title

About the Author

Director of the Inter-American Indian Institute in Mexico City, Miguel León-Portilla is a significant young Mexican scholar. He holds B.A. and M.A. degrees (summa cum laude) form Loyola University at Los Angeles and the Ph.D. from the National University of Mexico. La filosofía náhuatl: estudiada en sus fuentes, the Spanish version of this book, received high praise from both Mexican and American scholars.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0806123087
• ISBN 13: 9780806123080
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 254