LEADER 04014nam 2200553 450 001 9910817393803321 005 20230629233516.0 010 $a1-64012-406-3 035 $a(CKB)5600000000015086 035 $a(OCoLC)1272997170 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_94481 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6734597 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6734597 035 $a(EXLCZ)995600000000015086 100 $a20220623d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aTime in the wilderness $ethe formative years of John "Black Jack" Pershing in the American West /$fTim McNeese 210 1$a[Place of publication not identified] :$cPotomac Books,$d[2021] 210 4$dİ2021 215 $a1 online resource 311 $a1-64012-496-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: Canyon, June 1889 -- Childhood, 1860-1873 -- Community, 1873-1882 -- Cadets, 1882-1887 -- Cavalry, 1887-1890 -- Cloak, 1890-1891 -- College, 1891-1895 -- Cree, 1895-1898 -- Cuba, 1898 -- Colony, 1898-1903 -- Courtship, 1903-1909 -- Conquest, 1909-1913 -- Calamity, 1913-1916 -- Chase, 1916-1917 -- Conclusion: 1917-1948. 330 $a"Most Americans familiar with General John J. "Black Jack" Pershing know him as the commander of American Expeditionary Forces in Europe during the latter days of World War I. But Pershing was in his late fifties by then. Pershing's military career began in 1886, with his graduation from West Point and his first assignments in the American West as a horsebound cavalry officer during the final days of Apache resistance in the Southwest, where Arizona and New Mexico still represented a frontier of blue-clad soldiers, Native Americans, cowboys, rustlers, and miners. But the Southwest was just the beginning of Pershing's West. He would see assignments over the years in the Dakotas, during the Ghost Dance uprising and the battle of Wounded Knee; a posting at Montana's Fort Assiniboine; and, following his years in Asia, a return to the West with a posting at the Presidio in San Francisco and a prolonged assignment on the Mexican-American border in El Paso, which led to his command of the Punitive Expedition, tasked with riding deep into Northern Mexico to capture the pistolero Pancho Villa. During those thirty years from West Point to the Western Front, Pershing had a colorful and varied military career, including action during the Spanish-American War and lengthy service in the Philippines. Both were new versions of the American frontier abroad, even as the frontier days of the American West were closing. All of Pershing's experiences in the American West prepared him for his ultimate assignment as the top American commander during the Great War. If the American frontier and, more broadly, the American West provided a cauldron in which Americans tested themselves during the nineteenth century, the same was true for John Pershing. His story was a historical Western."--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aIndians of North America$xWars$y1866-1895 606 $aSpanish-American War, 1898$xCampaigns$zCuba 606 $aGenerals$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military$2bisacsh 606 $aHISTORY / United States / State & Local / Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)$2bisacsh 607 $aPhilippines$xHistory$y1898-1946 615 0$aIndians of North America$xWars 615 0$aSpanish-American War, 1898$xCampaigns 615 0$aGenerals 615 7$aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military 615 7$aHISTORY / United States / State & Local / Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX) 676 $a355.0092 686 $aBIO008000$aHIS036130$2bisacsh 700 $aMcNeese$b Tim$01672394 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910817393803321 996 $aTime in the wilderness$94035709 997 $aUNINA