Bigfoot Wallace
Title: The Adventures of Big-Foot Wallace, by John C. Duval, 2012
Description: However, it can justly lay claim to at least one merit, not often found in similar publications it is not a compilation of imaginary scenes and incidents, concocted in the brain of one who never was beyond the sound of a dinner-bell in his life, but a plain, unvarnished story of the scapes and scrapes of Big-F oot Wallace, the Texas Ranger and Hunter, written out from notes furnished by himself, and told, as well as my memory serves me, in his own language. Big-F oot Wallace is, perhaps, better known throughout Texas as an I ndian-fighter, hunter, and ranger, than any one now living in the State; which is saying a good deal, when the great number who have acquired more or less notoriety in that way is taken into consideration. Few men now living, I am confident, have witnessed as many stirring incidents, had more hair-breadth escapes, or gone through more of the hardships and perils of a border life. He was a participant in almost every fight, foray, and scrimmage with the Mexicans and Indians that took place ;m Texas after he first landed on her shores in 1836.
(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)
Ages: 10-12
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Description: However, it can justly lay claim to at least one merit, not often found in similar publications it is not a compilation of imaginary scenes and incidents, concocted in the brain of one who never was beyond the sound of a dinner-bell in his life, but a plain, unvarnished story of the scapes and scrapes of Big-F oot Wallace, the Texas Ranger and Hunter, written out from notes furnished by himself, and told, as well as my memory serves me, in his own language. Big-F oot Wallace is, perhaps, better known throughout Texas as an I ndian-fighter, hunter, and ranger, than any one now living in the State; which is saying a good deal, when the great number who have acquired more or less notoriety in that way is taken into consideration. Few men now living, I am confident, have witnessed as many stirring incidents, had more hair-breadth escapes, or gone through more of the hardships and perils of a border life. He was a participant in almost every fight, foray, and scrimmage with the Mexicans and Indians that took place ;m Texas after he first landed on her shores in 1836.
(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)
Ages: 10-12
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