Time in the Wilderness: The Formative Years of John "Black Jack" Pershing in the American West

by Tim McNeese

Nebraska Book Award, Biography Honor

Most Americans familiar with General John J. "Black Jack" Pershing know him as the commander of American Expeditionary Forces in Europe during the latter days of World War I. But Pershing was in his late fifties by then. Pershing's military career began in 1886, with his graduation from West Point and his first assignments in the American West as a horsebound cavalry officer during the final days of Apache...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1640124063
• ISBN13: 9781640124066
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: Potomac Books
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 8.0" x 9.2"