Soldiers in the Southwest Borderlands, 1848-1886 Lahti Janne
Most military biographies focus on officers, many of whom left diaries or wrote letters throughout their lives and careers. This collection offers new perspectives by focusing on the lives of enlisted…
Specifikacia Soldiers in the Southwest Borderlands, 1848-1886 Lahti Janne
Most military biographies focus on officers, many of whom left diaries or wrote letters throughout their lives and careers. This collection offers new perspectives by focusing on the lives of enlisted soldiers from a variety of cultural and racial backgrounds. Comprised of ten biographies, Soldiers in the Southwest Borderlands showcases the scholarship of experts who have mined military records, descendants' recollections, genealogical sources, and even folklore to tell common soldiers' stories.The essays examine enlisted soldiers' cross-cultural interactions and dynamic, situational identities. They illuminate the intersections of class, culture, and race in the nineteenth-century Southwest. The men who served under U.S. or Mexican flags and on the payrolls of the federal government or as state or territorial volunteers represented most of the major
The Order: 1886
The Soldiers Wife
Paintings of the Southwest
The Soldiers Wife
The Child Soldiers
The Soldiers Scoundrel
Tales from the Borderlands
The Stuff of Soldiers
Soldiers Are Dressed in Red