Frederick W. Lander: The Great Natural American Soldier

by Ecelbarger, Gary L

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Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. Very Good/Very Good. 2000. Hard Cover. 347 pps., Previous owners name on back of front endpage, Previous owners notations on front and back of last page of index. Tall and handsome, vigorous and hot-tempered, fearless to a fault, Frederick W. Lander (1821-1862) became one of the most name-recognized Americans in the years 1854 to 1862. A top-notch railroad and wagon-road engineer in the western territories, a popular lyceum speaker, a published fiction writer and poet, an adept negotiator with Native Americans, and an agent for the Lincoln administration and the Union army, the Massachusetts native attracted newspaper coverage from coast to coast for his renown and versatility. His name evoked emotion and passion among his friends and associates, including artists, poets, explorers, engineers, soldiers, and politicians, but at his untimely death early in the Civil War, he quickly and tragically descended into anonymity. .

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