Amazon.com description: Product Description: It required, indeed, all the excesses of the civil war of 1881-5 to produce the genuine American guerrilla more enterprising by far, more deadly, more capable of immense physical endurance, more fitted by nature for deeds of reckless hardihood, and given over to less of penitence or pleading when face to face with the final end, than any French or Spanish, Italian or Mexican guerrilla notorious in song or story. He simply lived the life that was in him, and took the worst or best as it came and as fate decreed it. Circumstances made him unsparing, and not any predisposition in race or rearing. Fought first with fire, he fought back with the torch; and branded as an outlaw first, in despite of all reason, he made of the infamous badge a birthright and boasted of it as a blood-red inheritance while flaunting it in the face of a civilization which denounced the criminals while condoning the crimes that made them such. F rom the book Noted Guerrillas, by Major John N. Edwards. COPYKIGHT 1899, BY JESSB JAMBS, JR. Copyright 1906, by Arthur Westbrook.
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