Luck is a Fortune
Автор: Oklahoma Historical Society
Загружено: 2024-07-23
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This presentation is based on two diaries, both written by soldiers stationed at Fort Gibson in 1839–40. Lieutenant Marcus Claudius Marcellus Hammond was born into a slaveholding planter family in South Carolina and was educated at West Point. Private John Flynn had worked in New York as a hatter before enlisting as a private of Dragoons. Hammond imagined a gallant military future. Flynn was escaping the urban job destruction caused by the Industrial Revolution. Their powerful personal stories provide insights into the politics and competing interests during this poorly known period of history.
Author Robert Pickering is the R. M. and Ida McFarlin Dean of the Library at the University of Tulsa. His book, “Luck is a Fortune: Adventure, Duty, and Buffalo on the 1841 Frontier,” is available at https://okhistory.org/fortune. This session was part of “Perspectives in History”: The Oklahoma History Symposium held on May 4, 2024, at the Oklahoma History Center.
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