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Fifty Years on the Trail is the biography of early American frontiersman John Young Nelson. As a frontiersman, Nelson served as a military scout, interpreter, guide, police chief, and a saloon owner.
Nelson ran away from home as a young teenager in the 1830’s to escape a tyrannical father seeking adventure in the west. Further book descriptions states: “He took odd jobs along with way working on farms, serving as a cabin boy on a Mississippi steamer, and becoming an apprentice with a group of traders traveling west from Missouri. After meeting a band of Sioux, he decided that the nomadic life of an Indian was the adventure he was looking for and got himself adopted into the tribe. Here he learned how to live off the land and acquired the skills of a Sioux warrior. His adopted father was the Chief Spotted Tail and his brother-in-law was Red Cloud—Chief of the Sioux Nation. As a young Sioux brave, Nelson participated in Indian raids and skirmishes. Later, he guided Brigham Young and the first group of Mormon pioneers into the Salt Lake Valley in 1847, worked as a military scout with William F. Cody (Buffalo Bill), fought in the Indian Wars, and served as a lawman in North Dakota. In his many escapades he often narrowly escaped death from bullets, arrows, and knives.”
The goal of Our House Treasures was to produce an extremely comfortable read of FIFTY YEARS ON THE TRAIL, resulting in more than simply a scanned book. We worked diligently to preserve the entire original work — maintaining grammatical and spelling errors, as well as honoring the vernacular of the 19th Century. There may be certain words, phrases or images in this work that Our House Treasures does not condone using in our current world.
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