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Hollon, William Eugene was born on May 28, 1913 in Commerce, Texas, United States. Son of Samuel Horace and Myrtle (Payne) Hollon.
( Acclaimed in his own time, Captain Randolph B. Marcy—t...)
Acclaimed in his own time, Captain Randolph B. Marcy—trailblazer, geographer, fighter in the Mexican War, American Indian authority, and author—traveled as extensively as any other nineteenth-century explorer. Yet Marcy has not achieved the fame of Lewis and Clark, Pike, Long, or Frémont, although he was the first to trace the Red River, in 1852. Marcy conducted five major expeditions through the West and drafted the first reasonably accurate maps of the Southwest. His advice to his military superiors led to the establishment of the chain of “Cross Timbers” forts from Fort Smith to New Mexico, including Forts Arbuckle, Belknap, and Sill, and the location of a number of Indian reservations. During the Mormon War Marcy led a dramatic march over 634 miles of snow-covered mountains to New Mexico to obtain relief supplies for isolated Fort Bridger, Wyoming. Beyond the Cross Timbers: The Travels of Randolph B. Marcy brings Marcy’s adventures to light, tracing his fifty years of army service and his epic journeys of exploration. W. Eugene Hollon utilized Marcy’s books, official Washington files, and the unpublished personal correspondence of the Marcy and McClellan families to present a graphic picture of nineteenth-century army life at lonely frontier posts, and the trials faced by the band of intrepid wives who followed their soldier husbands into the wilderness. Hollon also includes the story of the wooing and winning of daughter Mary Ellen Marcy by young Lieutenant George B. McClellan, who was to become his father-in-law’s commanding officer during the Civil War and Lincoln’s opponent in the 1864 election.
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(Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1949. 1st...)
Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1949. 1st Edition, Hardbound, about 9.5 inches tall, 240 pages. Bibliography, index. Includes a map and eleven additional black and white illustrations. This is volume number 12 in the American Exploration and Travel Series.
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8vo. xiii, 270 pp, preface, acknowledgments, list of b&w illustrations, I. "My Son...thinks he shall be pleased with a military life"; II. "A life-long complaint"; III. "Miserable and ignorant wretches; IV. "Respect and esteem"; V. "Wagons...westward"; VI. "All in fine health"; VII. "People of some consequence"; VIII. "A handsome compliment"; IX. "A tierra incognita"; X. "Melancholy and distressing news"; XI. "An uninteresting and forbidding land"; XII. "The pride of my heart"; XIII. "Tired of being kicked about"; XIV. "A very heavy responsibility; XV. "Destined to hold a high rank"; XVI. "For the good of the service" bibliographical notes, index. First Edition, 1955. Tan cloth with black lettering to spine, and black top text block edge. "Acclaimed in his own time, Captain Randolph B. Marcy -- trail blazer, geographer, Mexican fighter, indian authority, and author -- has too long languished in obscurity. Traveling as extensively as any other nineteenth-century explorer, he has yet to achieve the fame of Lewis and Clark, Pike, Long, and fremont, although he was the first to trace the Red River in 1852, which Pike and Long had not even found. Among his five major expeditions through the West, he drafted the first reasonabley accurate maps of the Southwest, and his advice to his military superiors led to the establishment of the chain of 'Cross Timbers' forts from Fort Smith to New Mexico and the location of a number of Indian reservations." from the jacket flap.
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(Trade Paperback. American History. This panorama of South...)
Trade Paperback. American History. This panorama of Southwestern life from the ancient cliff-dwellers' communities to modern Houston, Phoenix, and Santa Fe opens with a chronicle of settlement and discovery. First came the Spaniards, imposing their culture on the Indians, and after the French. Then came the Anglo-Americans, more successful in their struggle against Santa Anna's Mexico. . . .
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Hollon, William Eugene was born on May 28, 1913 in Commerce, Texas, United States. Son of Samuel Horace and Myrtle (Payne) Hollon.
Bachelor of Arts, E. Texas State College, Commerce, 1934; Master of Arts, University Texas, 1937; Doctor of Philosophy, University Texas, 1942.
Teacher public schools, Texas, 1934-1940. Professor history, instructor Ground School, Schreiner Institute, Kerrville, 1942-1945. Member faculty University Oklahoma, 1945-1967, professor history, 1956-1967.
Director Peace Corps program, El Salador, 1964. Curator history Stovall Museum Natural History and Sciences, 1947-1967. Research professor history University Toledo, 1967-1968, Ohio regents professor American history, 1968-1978, professor emeritus, since 1978.
Visiting professor University New Mexico, summer 1959, Catholic University, Lima, Peru, 1958, University Montana, summer 1965. Director seminar on American West Huntington Library, summer 1978, University New Mexico, summer, University Madrid, 1966-1967, 1979. Distinguished visiting lecturer Texas Lutheran College, 1983, Northern Arizona University, summer 1985.
(Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1949. 1st...)
( Acclaimed in his own time, Captain Randolph B. Marcy—t...)
(Trade Paperback. American History. This panorama of South...)
(8vo. xiii, 270 pp, preface, acknowledgments, list of b&w ...)
Member Organisation American Historians, Southwestern Arizona History Association, Western History Association (president 1966-1967), Great Plains History Association (editorial board), Ohio History Association.
Son of Samuel Horace and Myrtle (Payne) H. M. Francis Elizabeth Cross, May 10, 1941. 1 daughter, Susan Jean.