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Englishman Frank Collinson went to Texas in 1872, when he was seventeen, to work on Will Noonan's ranch near Castroville. He lived the rest of his life in the southwestern United States, and at the age of seventy-nine began writing about the Old West he knew and loved. He had a flair for writing, a phenomenal memory, and a passion for truth that is evident in what he wrote and said.
His writings for Ranch Romances, his letters, and transcriptions of his conversations have been arranged here in roughly chronological order, so that their importance for frontier history is readily apparent. Collinson ranged the West in his writings as he did in person, telling of the last tragic days of buffalo hunting on the Plains; clashes between hunters or cowboys and the Plains Indians; the character of trail drivers; and the definitive nature of violence, particularly at gun-point.
J. Frank Dobie said of Collinson: "In the realm of frontier chronicles, the writing of educated Englishmen. . . men with the perspective of civilization, with imagination, and a lust for primitive nature, stand out. To this class of men belongs Frank Collinson."
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Rob Gorman
reviewed Life in the Saddle, Vol. 21 on June 04, 2012
Life in the Saddle, Vol. 21
Nathanael Greene is considered one of the heroes of the American Revolution. He was from an influential family in Rhode Island and had an ancestor that helped settle the colony along with Roger Williams. He ran a family smithy in the village of Coventry, Rhode Island, which also happens to be my home town. This book really focuses on his rise through the colonial army during the war due to what seemed to be a natural talent for military strategy and managing supplies as a quartermaster. He started as a private in the East Greenwich militia and ended the war as a major general and being the first leader of the colonial forces in the Southern theater.
This was actually a pretty interesting read. The first and final chapters do a nice job of bookending Greene's story as Carbone highlights how his burial place had been lost only to be found in modern times and obviously concluding with the story of Greene's death.
Carbone actually reported on some of the content of the book with a series of stories in the Providence Journal, which I do remember reading when it was originally published. The book does a nice job of really presenting the story of Greene's military career and the important role he played in the revolutionary war, thus the important subtitle. I would have liked to have a bit more information about the personal aspects of his life, but that might have been difficult to have as participation in the war seems like it was all-encompassing in his life.
I do think this would be a great read for anyone with an interest in American history.
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