In this sequel to Thirty-one Years on the Plains and in the Mountains, Drannan recounts the years he says he spent guiding emigrant and government trains toward the California gold country, with scouts riding the flanks and war parties sighted on the ridges. Historians have long doubted much of his story, and his view of the Plains tribes is that of an old Indian fighter.
A colourful specimen of frontier memoir, best read as tall tale as much as history. Download the free EPUB.