Five Years a Dragoon (’49 to ’54) – Lowe

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From the Western research/reference library of Jerry Crandall

Five Years a Dragoon (’49 to ’54) and Other Adventures on the Great Plains

by Percival G. Lowe

Condition; good, scuffing on dust jacket over hard cover

University of Oklahoma Press 1965

Lowe spent almost 20 years traveling the Great Plains, first as a Dragoon recruit, then as a master of transportation and finally as the operator of a freighting company. Presented here are his recollections covering the period between the Mexican War and the Civil War with establishing outposts in the vast new territory of the west.