With the Border Ruffians: Memories of the Far West, 1852-1868 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Williams, R. H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1331545641 ISBN 13: 9781331545644

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2015

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Excerpt from With the Border Ruffians: Memories of the Far West, 1852-1868

His father and mother intended him for the Church he himself had aspirations for the Army, or the Indian Service, but neither could be managed for lack of means.

Finally he went to sea as a middy on Messrs. Green's East Indiaman the Madagascar, sailing from London in February, 1848, when he was nearly seventeen years old. Green's was in those days the best service II: England; but it was too staid, too quiet, for a youth like this. Thirsting for adventure, so after one voyage to India he gave it up.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1331545641
• ISBN 13: 9781331545644
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 528
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