{"product_id":"b083klw3hl","title":"Fifty Years On The Trail: The True Story of John Y. Nelson, Frontiersman, Scout, and Guide","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrontiersman, military scout, interpreter, guide, police chief, and saloon owner; John Young Nelson led a varied life in far west.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHe had fled home in Virginia as a young teenager to escape an overbearing father and to build a new life himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAfter working a number of small jobs he met a band of Sioux who took him in and showed him their way of life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHis book  Fifty Years on the Trail  tells tales of his life among Sioux, spent hunting, trapping, on raids and in skirmishes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book later recounts life as guide, during the period that he led the Mormons into Salt Lake Valley in 1847, as well as a scout during the Indian Wars that erupted in the mid-nineteenth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOne of the most experienced of American trappers. … The Casanova of the Trail, a more splendid natural ruffian, one more candid, cautious, daring, and diverting, it is impossible to desire. —  Saturday Review\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA thorough plainsman, his standing as a train guide was most enviable, being sought for by all. —  Buffalo Bill's Wild West\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHis adventures are among the strangest and the most amusing in the world. —  The Bookmart\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJohn Young Nelson’s memoir records a remarkable life through a tumultuous period.   Fifty Years on the Trail  was first published in 1889 and he passed away in 1903.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":52830336024792,"sku":"YSL47905","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0835\/3356\/2072\/files\/71voGjbIlGL._SY1500.jpg?v=1793190972","url":"https:\/\/www.bookmebay.com\/products\/b083klw3hl","provider":"BookMebay","version":"1.0","type":"link"}