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By Henry Taylor

ISBN-10: 0803294611

ISBN-13: 9780803294615

Henry Taylor’s lengthy existence (1825–1931) gave him an strange viewpoint on switch in American society. in the course of his lifetime, the West used to be principally settled. the United States fought wars with Mexico and Spain, was once approximately torn aside by way of a civil clash, after which joined allies around the sea in international struggle I. innovations proliferated (trains, automobiles, airplanes, to call a few), and twenty-six presidents served in workplace. Taylor’s existence additionally exemplifies the cellular American way of life. His kinfolk moved a number of occasions sooner than he left the lead mines of Wisconsin for the gold fields of California throughout the early 1850s. Taylor’s account of his trip around the western continent looking for fortune offers an arresting and particular examine the hazards of the path. His account of his flow to western Nebraska in 1878 deals perception into the issues and successes of the early homesteaders and settlers. The latter parts of the autobiography situation his later travels and his reflections on his lengthy life.

With wit and a prepared experience of personality, Taylor started to checklist his lifestyles tale whilst he used to be eighty and accomplished it on the age of 103. Donald L. Parman has equipped and annotated Taylor’s tale, delivering an advent and knowledge on humans, areas, and occasions within the text.

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Porter fought as long as there was enough men to man a gun, and then with his crew nearly all killed or wounded [he] surrendered. Some historians tell us that when [one of ] the English ofﬁcers stepped on board to take possession of the Esicks [Essex], that the sight of the mangled, torn and mutilated bodies, the deck smeared with blood and brains, sickened him, [and] he reeled, fainted and fell to the deck. The English captain was ﬁlled with so much admiration and respect for Porter’s gallant ﬁght that he paroled him and gave him the Esicks [Essex] Junior to return home in.

The [British] army was repulsed and defeated, and Ross was killed. The Fort beat off the ﬂeet while F. M. ” 35 I had two Uncles in this battle. One, Uncle Thomas, was in the regular service and commanded a Company of cavelry. During the night after the battle, the English were making ready for a retreat. In the morning they threw a heavy body of calvery to the front. This was only a screen to hide the Infantry which was allready on the march for the ships, and were soon followed by the cavalry.

Taylor and his brothers encountered a similar scene when they arrived on the Missouri. Photo courtesy of Scotts Bluff National Monument. Chimney Rock, located south of Bayard, Nebraska, is probably the best-known landform on the Oregon-California Trail. Photo courtesy of Donald L. Parman. “Old Bedlam” served as the ofﬁcers’ quarters at Fort Laramie, Wyoming. Constructed in 1849, the building was three years old when Henry Taylor stopped at this important point on the Oregon-California Trail. Photo courtesy of Donald L.

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