Thirty Years of Army Life on the Border

Thirty Years of Army Life on the Border is Randolph B. Marcy's vivid, first hand account of three decades on the far western frontier—written by the U.S. Army officer who literally wrote the book on how to cross it. As author of the classic guide The Prairie Traveler, Marcy helped thousands of emigrants survive the overland trails; in this later work he turns his attention to his own experiences as a career soldier pushing into what was then the very edge of the United States.

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