Anson Mills recalls his pioneer ancestors, his years at West Point and his early days in Texas, where he laid out and named the town of El Paso. He goes on to four years of Civil War service, frontier campaigns along the Rio Grande and against the Plains tribes, and the invention of the woven cartridge belt that made his fortune.
A plain-spoken memoir that spans the frontier, the Civil War and the Gilded Age. Download the free EPUB.