{"product_id":"u-s-dragoon-samuel-e-chamberlain-9781846774300","title":"U. S. Dragoon: Experiences in the Mexican War 1846-48 and on the South Western Frontier","description":"From soldier to wagon master to scalp hunter \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChamberlain left Boston as a mere youth and joined the United States Army. He became a soldier in the 1st US Dragoons and determined to become the very ideal of the daring cavalryman both on and off the battlefields of the American-Mexican War. His is a tale-not a little tall-that includes accounts of passionate love affairs, duels to the death, pitched battles and exploits of daring in which Chamberlain himself features as the central heroic figure. Certainly he was a larger than life character, as his accounts of constant troubles with his superiors for brawling, drunkenness and insubordination appear with a detail and frequency which suggest authenticity. At the end of the war Chamberlain became a wagon master-possibly after deserting the army-and then threw himself into a series of adventures with a notorious band of scalp hunters led by the infamous John Glanton. A highly entertaining and informative account of the United States cavalry at war, in which many of the principal characters of the American Civil War-who appear within it's pages-learned their craft.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Samuel E. Chamberlain\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1846774306\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781846774300\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Leonaur Ltd\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/28\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 252\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.69d","brand":"Samuel E. Chamberlain","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43938950381823,"sku":"9781846774300","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_72c1f63c-ca26-4e97-95da-1d6b0ddf918f.jpg?v=1681438626","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/u-s-dragoon-samuel-e-chamberlain-9781846774300","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}