04656cam a2200865 4500 606227900 TxAuBib 20221001120000.0 ||||||s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781640124950 1640124950 B08ZHFZZL7 Amazon 89f96406-fa39-4271-b71c-096ecb76c626 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 7067953 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib McNeese, Tim. Time in the Wilderness [Libby] : The Formative Years of John "Black Jack" Pershing in the American West. Potomac Books, 2021. el paso. Biography. Wounded Knee. WWI. Arizona. Governor. San Francisco. Western Front. Philippines. California. military career. South Dakota. world war one. North Dakota. American frontier. Great War. American west. New Mexico. Montana. Military History. History. World War I. Texas. West Point. military studies. Pancho Villa. Mindanao. american southwest. presidio. Spanish American War. american expeditionary forces. cavalry officer. Military Attache. Punitive Expedition. mexican american border. Apache Resistance. Fort Assiniboine. Fort Bayard. Fort Stanton. Fort Wingate. Ghost Dance Uprising. Moro Province. Overseas Service. Russo Japanese War. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2825kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Biography & Autobiography. History. Military. Nonfiction. HTML:Nebraska Book Award, Biography Honor<br /> Most Americans familiar with General John J. "Black Jack" Pershing know him as the commander of American Expeditionary Forces in Europe during the latter days of World War I. But Pershing was in his late fifties by then. Pershing's military career began in 1886, with his graduation from West Point and his first assignments in the American West as a horsebound cavalry officer during the final days of Apache resistance in the Southwest, where Arizona and New Mexico still represented a frontier of blue-clad soldiers, Native Americans, cowboys, rustlers, and miners.<br /> But the Southwest was just the beginning of Pershing's West. He would see assignments over the years in the Dakotas, during the Ghost Dance uprising and the battle of Wounded Knee; a posting at Montana's Fort Assiniboine; and, following his years in Asia, a return to the West with a posting at the Presidio in San Francisco and a prolonged assignment on the Mexican-American border in El Paso, which led to his command of the Punitive Expedition, tasked with riding deep into Northern Mexico to capture the pistolero Pancho Villa.<br /> During those thirty years from West Point to the Western Front, Pershing had a colorful and varied military career, including action during the Spanish-American War and lengthy service in the Philippines. Both were new versions of the American frontier abroad, even as the frontier days of the American West were closing.<br /> All of Pershing's experiences in the American West prepared him for his ultimate assignment as the top American commander during the Great War. If the American frontier and, more broadly, the American West provided a cauldron in which Americans tested themselves during the nineteenth century, they did the same for John Pershing. His story was a historical Western.<br />. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-09-30 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=89f96406-fa39-4271-b71c-096ecb76c626&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=89f96406-fa39-4271-b71c-096ecb76c626&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=89f96406-fa39-4271-b71c-096ecb76c626&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)