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John Allan Wyeth served as a private in the Confederate cavalry until his capture two weeks after Chickamauga. After the war he After the war he studied at the University of Louisville School of Medicine (graduating in 1869) and at the Bellevue Hospital Medical College from 1872 to 1873. He later completed his medical studies in Europe, where he was trained as a surgeon.
Frederick William Nolan is an English editor and writer, mostly known as Frederick Nolan, but also using the pen names Donald Severn, Daniel Rockfern, Christine McGuire and Frederick H. Christian.
He was educated in Liverpool and Aberaeron, Wales. At the age of twenty one, he began the researches that established him as one of England's leading authorities on the American West. In 1954 he was co-founder of The English Westerners' Society.
John Frederick Finerty was born in Ireland and immigrated to the United States in 1864. During the Civil War he fought with the Union Army. Later he was a war correspondent for the Chicago Times. In 1882, he founded the Citizen, a Chicago weekly newspaper. From 1883 to 1885 he served as as an Independent Democrat in the Forty-eighth Congress.
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John Allan Wyeth served as a private in the Confederate cavalry until his capture two weeks after Chickamauga. After the war he After the war he studied at the University of Louisville School of Medicine (graduating in 1869) and at the Bellevue Hospital Medical College from 1872 to 1873. He later completed his medical studies in Europe, where he was trained as a surgeon.
William Watson was a Scot who lived and worked in the South prior to the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861. Although he opposed secession, he served with the Confederate army until badly wounded at the battle of Corinth and discharged, whereupon he bought a small ship and took up blockade running in the Gulf of Mexico, making three successful passages. By the time he started much of this activity had moved to Havana, Cuba, which had attracted a variety of characters, some heroic but most shady. Watson describes his many problems in the business in a lively, modern style.
John Crittenden Duval (1816–1897) was an American writer of Texas literature. He has been noted as being the first Texas man of letters and was dubbed the "Father of Texas Literature" by J. Frank Dobie. His Early Times in Texas was initially published serially in 1867 in Burke's Weekly (Macon, Georgia) and was finally published in book form in 1892. The story, which became a Texas classic, recounted Duval's escape from the Goliad Massacre, in which his own brother Burr H. Duval was killed, as well as other tales.
George Bird Grinnell was an American anthropologist, historian, naturalist, and writer. Grinnell was born in Brooklyn, New York, and graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in 1870 and a Ph.D. in 1880. Originally specializing in zoology, he became a prominent early conservationist and student of Native American life. Grinnell has been recognized for his influence on public opinion and work on legislation to preserve the American bison. Mount Grinnell is named after Grinnell.
Hello, I'm a British author, podcaster, and historian, and welcome to my series of books on the Fall Of The Roman Empire. My passion is Roman history. I've wandered among the ruins of the Roman Forum and wondered what happened to this great civilisation? I've stared into the dome of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, and reflected on how the Roman Empire lasted for centuries after Rome itself was sacked, even when its capital moved to Constantinople. So, I've embarked on writing the full account of this momentous time.
Immerse yourself in this incredible story. It may surprise you to find that those events so long ago are strangely relevant to our modern times, from the changing climate to religion, and from war to peace. Let us listen to the voices
William Thomas Hamilton (1822 - 1908), also known as Wildcat Bill, was a mountain man, trapper, and scout of the American West. Some accounts say he was "Scottish born", others that he was in the River Till area of Northumberland. He and his parents emigrated to the USA from Scotland while he was an infant.
Trapping from an early age, in the 1850s he became an Indian fighter and at the end of the decade established a trading post, concurrently holding a variety of jobs including county sheriff.
