Author: John Y. Fillmore BlakePublisher:
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Category : South African War, 1899-1902
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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A West Pointer with the Boers
Author: John Y. Fillmore BlakePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : South African War, 1899-1902
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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A West Pointer with the Boers
Author: John Y F BlakePublisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN: 9781498137492
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Languages : en
Pages : 510
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This Is A New Release Of The Original 1903 Edition.
A West Pointer with the Boers
Author: J. Y. Filmore BlakePublisher:
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Category : South African War, 1899-1902
Languages : en
Pages : 411
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A West Pointer With the Boers
Author: John Y Fillmore BlakePublisher: Franklin Classics Trade Press
ISBN: 9780344140907
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Languages : en
Pages : 518
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A West Pointer With the Boers (Classic Reprint)
Author: John Y. Fillmore BlakePublisher:
ISBN: 9781330804223
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 518
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Excerpt from A West Pointer With the Boers Friends have advised me to say a little something about myself, by way of a beginning, and to please them, I will commence with the statement that I was born in the State of Missouri, in 1856, and waked up on a horse and cattle ranch on the plains of Denton County, Texas. At least, here it was that I first saw light, as far as I can remember. As I grew up I learned to ride the Texas pony, and became fairly well acquainted with the character and habits of horses and cattle, by having, year after year, to look after them, and see that none strayed away. Happy were those days of loneliness and ignorance spent on those far-stretching plains, where roamed hundreds of thousands of horses, cattle and buffalo! In 1871, my father started me to school at the Arkansas State University, at Fayetteville. In 1876, while still at the University, I received the cadet appointment to the U. S. Military Academy at West Point, through the kindness of Hon. Thomas M. Gunter, M. C., an old friend of my father. I entered the Academy in September, of the same year, and graduated in June, 1880. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
A West Pointer with the Boers
Author: John Y. Fillmore BlakePublisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230306308
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Languages : en
Pages : 88
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER H. A CARNIVAL OF MURDER--PRECEDING JAMESON'S RAID AND CHAMBERLAIN'8 CONSPIRACY. Having remained in Johannesburg for just thirty days, I secured four pack donkeys, and in company with three friends, started for this fabulously rich country, Golden Rhodesia. It was the rainy season, and it was rain, rain, rain, day and night, but we were determined not to be balked by anything; we would see Buluwayo, the gold center, 600 miles away, or go down in the attempt. We had before us eight swollen rivers, wicked rivers at this season, but almost dry beds at any other time of the year. We had to swim all of them, and what a struggle it was for us! I can't understand now just how we succeeded, and do not know how we escaped the crocodiles, yet we landed safely in Victoria, Mashonaland, on Easter Sunday, in the early part of April. Here I found about 600 people sleeping in the graveyard, and about 300 lying on cots and on the counters in the stores and various other places, all down with the fever. I did not like the situation at all. To buy anything one had to help himself and then hand the money to the sick man on the counter. I found that Salisbury, Gwelo and Buluwayo were all practically in the same condition. It was fever, fever, nothing but fever everywhere, and all this talk of gold, gold, gold, was entirely misleading. It did not take us but about one minute to discover that Golden Rhodesia was a golden fraud, and so it was then, and so it is now, and will forever be. However, I was not satisfied, so I traversed the whole land, penetrated into the jungles of the Zambesi, roamed about in company with the elephant, rhinoceros, the hippopotamus, the savage buffalo, giraffe, zebra, the lion, leopard, hyena, wild dog, jackal and all the...
A West Pointer With the Boers;
Author: J Y F BlakePublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781015514829
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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A West Pointer with the Boers
Author: J. Y. Filmore BlakePublisher:
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Category : South African War, 1899-1902
Languages : en
Pages : 526
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A West Pointer with the Boers
Author: John Y. F. BlakeA West Pointer with the Boers - Primary Source Edition
Author: John Y. Fillmore BlakePublisher: Nabu Press
ISBN: 9781293803493
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 520
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