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Nobody's Hero by Frank Laumer (2008, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherPineapple Press, Incorporated
ISBN-101561644315
ISBN-139781561644315
eBay Product ID (ePID)70427438
Product Key Features
Book TitleNobody's Hero
Number of Pages271 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2008
TopicBiographical, Historical
GenreFiction
AuthorFrank Laumer
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight20 oz
Item Length9.1 in
Item Width6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2008-027858
Reviews"[Laumer's] exhumation and examination of Clark is certainly the most exhaustive and definitive research I've ever heard of." -- Richard Snow, "American Heritage", [Laumer's] exhumation and examination of Clark is certainly the most exhaustive and definitive research I' ve ever heard of. -- Richard Snow, "American Heritage"
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal813/.6
SynopsisIn December 1835, eight officers and one hundred men of the U.S. Army under the command of Brevet Major Francis Langhorne Dade set out from Fort Brooke at Tampa Bay, Florida, to march north a hundred miles to reinforce Fort King (present-day Ocala). On the sixth day, halfway to their destination, they were attacked by Seminole Indians. By four o'clock in the afternoon, only three wounded soldiers survived what came to be known as the Dade Massacre. Only two of those men managed to struggle fifty miles back to Fort Brooke. One of them--wounded in the shoulder and hip, a bullet in one lung--was Private Ransom Clark. It is the story of great duplicity, not on the part of Seminole Indians, but of the politicians and officers who sent the men of Dade's command to their death. The Dade Massacre was the pretext the U.S. government needed to begin the Second Seminole War, the longest and most expensive Indian war in American history. In 1839 Ransom Clark wrote a brief account of his ordeal, entitled The Surprising Adventures of Ransom Clark, Among the Indians in Florida . Although he promised to later supply an entire account, he didn't live long enough to do so, succumbing to his grave wounds. In Nobody's Hero , Frank Laumer completes Clark's story., Nobody's Hero is a true adventure of an American soldier who refused to die, in spite of terrible wounds that would have stopped a lesser man. Frank Laumer has used historical documents, including Clark's own brief account, and, as Laumer explains, "taken the bones of fact and put upon them the flesh of fiction."
LC Classification NumberPS3612.A944224N63
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Ransom is actually a distant relative of my husband. We have bought several copies to share with our family.
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