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This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our cont...

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The American West as it was in the Days of Kit Carson and the "Mountain Men". Based on his own experiences, English writer and adventurer Ruxton first published this work in Blackwood's Magazine in the 1850s as "Life in the Far West".

Excerpt from In the Old West, Vol. 1 When we bought the Louisiana Territory from Napoleon, in 1803, it was not from any pressing need of land, for we still had millions of fertile acres east of the Mississippi. The purchase was made to forestall complications with foreign pow ers, either with the arch-conqueror himself, whose ambition was supposed to be the mastery of the whole world, or with Great Britain, to which the western country was su...

Excerpt from Adventures in Mexico Having passed through this desolate and sav age land, which to Europeans was known only as a blank spot on the map, the adventurer reach-cd Chihuahua in November, none the worse for hard ships of the trail, but rather stimulated to go on and finish the task he had set himself to perform. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgotten...

Excerpt from Wild Life in the Rocky Mountains: A True Tale of Rough Adventure in the Days of the Mexican War The present volume is a continuation of "Adventures in Mexico, " by Lieutenant Ruxton which precedes it in this Library of Adventure. Here we take up the story of our author's journey northward from Chihuahua to the Rocky Mountains. Passing through treeless deserts, where he and his animals suffered much from lack of water, he arrived...

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Excerpt from Adventures in Mexico and the Rocky MountainsSome apology, I am aware, is necessary for offering so meagre an account of Mexico as that which is set before the reader in the following pages. In justice to myself, however, I may state that all the notes and memoranda of the country I passed through, as well as several valuable and interesting documents and mss.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rar...

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