Fifty Years On The Trail: The True Story of John Y. Nelson, Frontiersman, Scout, and Guide BISAC-REL026000 ISBN10: 0996096531

ISBN10: 0996096531

ISBN13: 9780718030643

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Fifty Years On The Trail: The True Story of John Y. Nelson, Frontiersman, Scout, and Guide BISAC-REL026000 ISBN10: 0996096531This is the true story of John Young Nelson an early American frontiersman, military scout, interpreter, guide, police chief, and saloon owner. Born in Virginia in 1826, Nelson ran away from home as a young teenager to escape a domineering father and to seek adventure in the west. He took odd jobs along with way working on farms, serving as a cabin boy on a Mississippi steamer, and becoming an apprentice with a group of traders traveling west from