More Zeal Than Discretion

More Zeal Than Discretion PDF Author: Jimmy L. Bryan
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1603444114
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 266

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Book Description
Walter P. Lane emigrated from Ireland as a young boy, fought in three wars, sailed the Texas coast with a privateer, and traveled to California and Arizona in search of gold. What drove this man, who in many ways typifies the adventurers who contributed to the westward expansion in the United States during the early nineteenth century? 264 pp. 11 b&w photos. Bib. Index. $35.00 cloth