"The Deaths Of The Bravos" -- book for sale -- SOLD

[Poverty Bill, SASS# 45790]

Howdy, have a nice book for sale.

 

"The Deaths Of The Bravos"

by John Myers Myers

 

"The Deaths Of The Bravos is an informal, behind-the-scenes history of the men who explored, settled and fought in the mountains, towns and plains of the Western territories during their inchoate, preindustrial period. Written by a man who has devoted his life to research and writing of the American West, it is the most comprehensive presentation of American pioneers in action ever written.

"By and large," John Myers Myers writes, "what went on in the early days of the American West transpired while historians were looking the other way...the West's prime movers had no idea themselves that they were doing more than following their personal bents. For most of them recognition of their national importance was postponed until they had been dead for anywhere from fifty to a hundred years. But as they had been rememberd as men of mark in thier own region, they had by then become citizens of tradition." The tradition in which their exploits were preserved was the oral one, and many of the episodes that go to make up the epic of the Old West were passed from one memory to another before they were ever given written form. For The Deaths Of The Bravos, Mr. Myers has plumbed this vast and herioc literature to present the story of the West not in a scholarly, formal manner but with something of the spirit in which it took place and became legend.

Mr. Myers includes many already familiar figures such as Sam Houston and John Fremont, and introduces a horde of colorful heroes and villains unknown to most of us: Hugh Glass, Jim Bridges, James Ohio Pattie, Jed Smith, Sam Walker, Sarah Bowman, Cynthia Ann Parker, Madame Fanny Perrier are only a few whose story is told in this remarkable narrative of Western lore.

The cast of characters includes mountain men, soldiers, gunslingers, Mexican bandits, Indians, camp followers, politicians and prospectors. The scene is laid in the period 1812 to 1878, the most individualistic, explosive period of our history. The drama is one of our country's greatest.

Here in full dimension is the story of the bravos of the West "who turned a large but limited nation into one of continent-spanning dimensions." These great adventures were as diverse and manifold "as their occupations, thier goals and their states of grace," but they had a great deal in common, including a willingness to stake their lives against whatever they wished to achieve. Their story is properly one chronicle, a chronicle John Myers Myers has written in the magnificent panorama of the men and events that made the Old West."

 

copyright 1962

first edition stated

 

5 7/8" x 8 1/2" tall

467 pages

 

book is in very good ++ condition

dust jacket is also good with some light shelf wear

 

$23.00 shipped to you(media rate) in the U.S.A.

 

SOLD to GunClick Rick

 

If you are interested or need more info. please post here on the wire.

 

Thanks for look'n.

[Poverty Bill, SASS# 45790]

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[GunClick Rick]

Is it a true account?I hear Fremont was a low down yankee lier..