ISBN: 9780806161754

In 1918, urged on by his son Harry, John Benton Hart began to tell stories of a three-year period in his youth. He recalled his days as a trooper in the Eleventh Kansas Cavalry, fighting … More...

In 1918, urged on by his son Harry, John Benton Hart began to tell stories of a three-year period in his youth. He recalled his days as a trooper in the Eleventh Kansas Cavalry, fighting in Missouri and on the frontier, and his time as a civilian jack-of-all-trades doing risky work for the U.S. Army on the Wyoming-Montana Bozeman Trail in the middle of the Indian resistance campaign known as Red Cloud’s War. Once started, John Benton Hart became an enthusiastic raconteur, describing events with an almost cinematic vividness, while his son, an aspiring writer, documented his father’s testimony in what became several manuscripts. Compiled and reproduced here, edited by historian John Hart, John Benton Hart’s great-grandson, this memoir is a singular document of living history. As a young Kansas cavalryman, John Benton Hart participated in two momentous episodes of the Civil War era—Sterling Price’s Missouri Expedition of 1864, including the Battle of Westport, and such engagements in the Plains Indian Wars as the Battle of Platte Bridge in July 1865 and the Hayfield Fight near Fort C. F. Smith in 1867. In the engaging style of a natural storyteller, Hart re-creates these events as he experienced them, giving readers a rare glimpse at moments of historical import from the point of view of the “ordinary” soldier. In arresting detail, he also tells of crossing the Plains as a bullwhacker, carrying the mail between the beleaguered forts on the Bozeman Trail, and befriending scout Jim Bridger and Mountain Crow Chief Blackfoot. Framed and supplemented with the editor’s biographical, historical, and explanatory notes, Hart’s memoir offers a new perspective on events long fixed in the historical imagination. As history writ large or on a personal scale, Bluecoat and Pioneer tells a remarkable story.   Trade Books>Hardcover>Biography>Regional Biog,Memoir>Regional Biog,Memoir, University of Oklahoma Press Core >2<

ISBN: 9780806161754

In 1918, urged on by his son Harry, John Benton Hart began to tell stories of a three-year period in his youth. He recalled his days as a trooper in the Eleventh Kansas Cavalry, fighting … More...

In 1918, urged on by his son Harry, John Benton Hart began to tell stories of a three-year period in his youth. He recalled his days as a trooper in the Eleventh Kansas Cavalry, fighting in Missouri and on the frontier, and his time as a civilian jack-of-all-trades doing risky work for the U. S. Army on the Wyoming-Montana Bozeman Trail in the middle of the Indian resistance campaign known as Red Cloud''s War. Once started, John Benton Hart became an enthusiastic raconteur, describing events with an almost cinematic vividness, while his son, an aspiring writer, documented his father''s testimony in what became several manuscripts. Compiled and reproduced here, edited by historian John Hart, John Benton Hart''s great-grandson, this memoir is a singular document of living history. As a young Kansas cavalryman, John Benton Hart participated in two momentous episodes of the Civil War era-Sterling Price''s Missouri Expedition of 1864, including the Battle of Westport, and such engagements in the Plains Indian Wars as the Battle of Platte Bridge in July 1865 and the Hayfield Fight near Fort C. F. Smith in 1867. In the engaging style of a natural storyteller, Hart re-creates these events as he experienced them, giving readers a rare glimpse at moments of historical import from the point of view of the ""ordinary"" soldier. In arresting detail, he also tells of crossing the Plains as a bullwhacker, carrying the mail between the beleaguered forts on the Bozeman Trail, and befriending scout Jim Bridger and Mountain Crow Chief Blackfoot. Framed and supplemented with the editor''s biographical, historical, and explanatory notes, Hart''s memoir offers a new perspective on events long fixed in the historical imagination. As history writ large or on a personal scale, Bluecoat and Pioneer tells a remarkable story. | Bluecoat And Pioneer by John Benton Hart Hardcover | Indigo Chapters Books > Biography & Memoirs > History & Politics > Military P10101, John Benton Hart<

ISBN: 9780806161754

An annotated collection of the memoirs of frontiersman John Benton Hart, a young Kansas cavalryman who served in the Missouri border conflicts during the late Civil War and who witnessed … More...

An annotated collection of the memoirs of frontiersman John Benton Hart, a young Kansas cavalryman who served in the Missouri border conflicts during the late Civil War and who witnessed pivotal events in the post-Civil War opening of the West and the displacement of native peoples in the future states of Wyoming and Montana.--Provided by publisher. Books, [PU: University of Oklahoma Press]<

ISBN: 9780806161754

Hardback, [PU: University of Oklahoma Press], In the engaging style of a natural storyteller, John Benton Hart recreates events as he experienced them, giving readers a rare glimpse at mo… More...

Hardback, [PU: University of Oklahoma Press], In the engaging style of a natural storyteller, John Benton Hart recreates events as he experienced them, giving readers a rare glimpse at moments of historical import from the point of view of the "ordinary" soldier., Biography: Historical, Political & Military<

2019, ISBN: 9780806161754

The Recollections of John Benton Hart, 1864-1868, Buch, Hardcover, [PU: University of Oklahoma Press], University of Oklahoma Press, 2019