We've done other favorites, songs & movies, so I thought it might be nice to do a thread on books, too.
Among my favorites is Life of Tom Horn, the Lakeside Press edition.
http://www.townsendbooks.com/lakeside.htm
and search for Tom Horn.
Usually the edition doesn't matter so much, but as this is an autobiography, written by Horn while in jail awaiting execution, he just wrote. The editors at the Lakeside Press spent some effort arranging things into chapters that more or less make sense, and footnoting things that Horn misremembered -- for example, someone Horn called a major, who was only a lieutenant at the time; someone Horn believed to have been killed in the Spanish-American War who in fact survived, that sort of thing. There is also a very useful biographical dictionary at the end.
Horn was the translator for Geronimo at a number of "talks" with the "Government" and a close friend of Al Sieber. He also lived with the Apaches for a while, as well as being a scout for the U.S. Army. His description of the Apaches varies considerably from the typical liberal portrayal of them today. He liked them -- well, some of them -- no doubt about it, but his stories give a rather different humanity to the Apache tribes.
Edit: Corrected the spelling of Al Sieber's name -- and if anyone's read a good book about him, I'd be interested in knowing of it.
Among my favorites is Life of Tom Horn, the Lakeside Press edition.
http://www.townsendbooks.com/lakeside.htm
and search for Tom Horn.
Usually the edition doesn't matter so much, but as this is an autobiography, written by Horn while in jail awaiting execution, he just wrote. The editors at the Lakeside Press spent some effort arranging things into chapters that more or less make sense, and footnoting things that Horn misremembered -- for example, someone Horn called a major, who was only a lieutenant at the time; someone Horn believed to have been killed in the Spanish-American War who in fact survived, that sort of thing. There is also a very useful biographical dictionary at the end.
Horn was the translator for Geronimo at a number of "talks" with the "Government" and a close friend of Al Sieber. He also lived with the Apaches for a while, as well as being a scout for the U.S. Army. His description of the Apaches varies considerably from the typical liberal portrayal of them today. He liked them -- well, some of them -- no doubt about it, but his stories give a rather different humanity to the Apache tribes.
Edit: Corrected the spelling of Al Sieber's name -- and if anyone's read a good book about him, I'd be interested in knowing of it.
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