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Pecos Bill: A Military Biography of William R. Shafter
Paul H. Carlson
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| #464778 in Books | Texas AnM University Press | 1989-07-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.32 x.90 x6.34l,1.20 | File type: PDF | 225 pages | ||5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| Revisionist History at Its Best|By Roger D. Launius|The image of William R. Shafter in American military history is one of a fat, incompetent buffoon who presided over one of the most disorganized escapades in our history, the American Expeditionary Force to Cuba in 1898. According to popular conception, what success that campaign did attain should be credited to Teddy Roosevel|About the Author|
PAUL H. CARLSON has published many articles on frontier and Texas history as well as Texas Woollybacks: The Range Sheep and Goat Industry. He is associate professor of history at Texas Tech University.
General William R. Shafter was no gallant hero. He drank, gambled, swore, got into fights with his men. They nicknamed him for the river that was one of his targets: Pecos Bill.” He was accused of trying to start a war with Mexico and became involved in an embezzlement case. Associated with military blunders during the Spanish-American War, he has often been pictured as a fat, incompetent buffoon.
But Shafter, if coarse and abrasive, was a man wh...
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