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TRAILS OF THE WHITE SAVAGES
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(They're written like novels with dialogue based on journals,
diaries and newspapers)
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Trails Of The White Savages
Trails Of The White
Savages
by Gary H. Wiles and Delores M. Brown is the true story of the Scotch-Irish and
their contribution to the history of America. Included are Andrew Jackson, Sam
Houston, David Crockett, mountain man Joseph R. Walker, Kit Carson and others.
This epic documents the adventures of these men and others during 1813 - 1836.
One theme follows the life of Joseph Walker as he fights in the Creek War under
Andrew Jackson with Houston and Crockett, moves to Missouri, becomes the
much-loved Sheriff of Independence and eventually joins Captain Benjamin
Bonneville in their famous expedition into the West.
The reader also follows
Andrew Jackson's military and political career as he rises to the Presidency
and the political exploits of the legendary David Crockett who later dies
fighting at the Alamo. Sam Houston's life is also documented, including his
rises and falls from power, his battles with the bottle, failed marriages and
eventual redemption in the battle for Texas Independence.
In the course of these
accounts, the reader learns many important events that shaped the history of
our nation, including Andrew Jackson's dealings with the Creek and Seminole
Indians, the travails Americans faced in establishing the Santa Fe Trail, three
versions of the Old Spanish Trail to California and finally the California
Emigrant Trail, all key to colonizing the West.
Trails Of The White Savages is a well written historical work intended
to spark readers' interest in American history. The dialogue evolves from
journals, letters, autobiographies, newspaper interviews or authenticated
quotes from earlier texts and brings these historical figures to life. The book
ranges from light-hearted to graphically realistic. It's both an engrossing
read and educational. The time frames listed at the beginning of each chapter
and atop each page allow the reader to easily track the time lines of the book.
Sixteen simple maps matched to explorations and action enable the reader to
pinpoint pertinent trails and geographic locations. The book is thoroughly
researched and well documented with an extensive bibliography that scholars
will find useful. Written in the format of a documentary, this book is also a
great source for the student seeking general background information about this
era.
Jodi
Eldredge and Dr. Fred R. Gowans'
History
Department
Brigham
Young University
'Dr. Gowans has written
four preeminent books on the fur trade. Editor.
TRAIILS OF THE WHITE
SAVAGES (History as it Happensä Series) [1813 -1836.
By
Gary H. Wiles and Delores M. Brown. Photosensitive PO Box 7008, Hemet, CA
92545. Phone or fax [909] 765-0950 1998. 352 Pp. ISBN 1-889252-03-4. $16.95 +$1.00
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Subjects: [Scots in America], [California Spanish period], [American History.
Nineteenth Century], [Missouri Nineteenth Century], [American History. Seminole
Wars] [Native American History], [Texas. Texas Revolution].
It is difficult to
adequately describe in words the impact of the authors' History As It Happensä style of writing. The only way I can even
come close is to go back many years when I eagerly awaited the weekly CBS
sponsored series "You Are There" (1953-1957). Featuring on-the-scene
reporter Walter Cronkite, the series emotionally drew viewers in as if they
were actually on the scene, first hand, to witness dramatic historical events.
I owe much of my love of history to programs of this type and writing like
TRAILS OF THE WHITE SAVAGES.
There is no detached
reader when one dives into TRAILS OF THE WHITE SAVAGES! Agreeing with Ray
Glazner, in his fine Foreword to the book, one can hear the characters
"... talking in their own words." Such a style of writing allows the
reader right into the minds and hearts of such White Savages as Andrew Jackson,
Kit Carson, the Walkers and Sam Houston as the authors unfold their influence
on American history in a holistic, chronological manner. In both the case of
such a television program and this finely crafted book, the artisans succeed in
truly bringing history to life.
There could be no better
title than ... WHITE SAVAGES to describe the revulsion Benjamin Franklin and
other colonists felt for the outcast Scottish emigrants, first exiled to
Northern Ireland by the British, then hounded with tyrannical taxes and
religious persecution from Ireland to America, where these White Savages became
a major part of the backbone of colonial and early frontier culture. This epic
embraces the War of 1812, the process of Indian Removal, Seminole Wars,
Westward Expansion, arrival of trappers in Alta California, Missouri's
emergence, the Texas Revolution with the heroic stand at the Alamo and final
vindication at San Jacinto. The laboriously crafted 9,000 word index with dates
and places of birth of all central figures compendicizes the lives of over 300
persons between 1813 and 1836 on land that was, or would become 35 states for
which all admission dates into the Union are specified. The 16 maps and 11
portraits, the wealth of quoted documents and 169 volume bibliography are ample
testimony to this book's suitability as a reference source.
Within this driving
narrative readers come face to face with such stark contrasts in character as that
between the fiery Andrew Jackson who dismembered his enemies at Horseshoe Bend
and Chalmette while the gentle Joe Walker kept the peace in Independence by
making his enemies into friends. This book is a great insight into the history
of the human condition and a marvelous read.
Chuck
Hamsa, Collection Development Bibliographer
Library,
University of Southwestern Louisiana and
Reviewer's
Consortium, Lafayette, Louisiana
In TRAILS OF THE WHITE
SAVAGES authors Gary Wiles and Delores Brown have created not only a fine work
of history, but it is as readable as a novel.
Using their history as it happensä methods,
they have made famous and infamous historical figures live again in well
researched, true life adventures so vivid and outlandish the rashest novelist
could never risk portraying them as fiction.
As you read page after
page of real history, you "hear" Andrew Jackson, Kit Carson, the
Walkers, Sam Houston and many other legendary Americans "talking" in
their own words. It affords an appreciation of history that is the next best
thing to being there.
The book flows well. It
illuminates actual humorous, frightening or deplorable incidents that are only
hinted at in most history books. It is an in-depth study of an often overlooked
era of American History intimately exploring the people and the pathways of
westward expansion and the fur trade of the early 1800s.
Impressively researched,
backed by a host of understandable maps, a pervasive bibliography and the
intricate social and historical trappings of the times, this book should be
required reading for everyone interested in the history of our country.
Ray Glazner
Simi Valley, California's
Ray Glazner is a distinguished educator, historian, historical re-enactor and
consultant to state and national museums as well as the entertainment industry.
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Read Chapter 4 HEROES OF HORSESHOE BEND
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ICE, WONDERS & SKYFIRE
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