Frontier Skills: The Tactics and Weapons That Won the American West - Hardcover

Davis, William C

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1585746797 ISBN 13: 9781585746798

Publisher: Lyons Press, 2003

Synopsis

A generously illustrated guide to warfare on the American frontier highlights the tactics and weaponry that made the European and American settlers and their armies successful at conquering and securing the Western portion of the North American continent. Outdoorsmen's Edge Book Club.

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From the Back Cover:

When in the early 1800s U.S. President Thomas Jefferson ordered a mission of exploration westward from St. Louis, Missouri, he inspired the emergence of a nation in a momentous century of migration and settlement. Thousands of explorers and hunters, settlers and opportunists, lawless and law-abiding eventually became millions joining the spread into the new territories of the American frontier.
They faced incredible hardships and had to overcome fearsome dangers from the elements, wild beasts, and hostile humans. They learned from their predecessors, the Native Americans, and brought with them their own skills for survival, the basic attributes that had always been essential through the whole history of human experience; endurance, strength, ingenuity, cooperation, and simple unwillingness to give up.
This fascinating volume, superbly illustrated with specially commissioned photographs of artifacts, artworks and contemporary images, is an examination of the trials and tribulations of those stalwart people who craved or were sometimes desperate for a new life in the West. It is a tribute to all those, regardless of race, color or creed, who did survive that epic century.

About the Author:

WILLIAM C. DAVIS has written more than thirty books on American history, particularly of the Civil War period, including Civil War Weapons and Equipment (page 81) and The Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Civil War (page 128). He has acted as consultant and advisor to the Eastern National Parks & Monuments Association, the U.S. Intelligence Historical Society, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. He is Professor of History and Director of Programs for the Virginia Center for Civil War Studies at Virginia Tech. He lives in Blacksburg, Virginia.

About this edition

• Publisher: Lyons Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1585746797
• ISBN 13: 9781585746798
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 128