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The American Elsewhere

Adventure and

Manliness

in the Age of

Expansion

Jimmy L. Bryan Jr.

2017 by the University Press of Kansas

All rights reserved

Portions of chapter 6 originally appeared as an essay in Alexander Mendoza and Charles David Greer, eds., Texans and War: New Interpretations of the States Military History (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2012).

Published by the University Press of Kansas (Lawrence, Kansas 66045), which was organized by the Kansas Board of Regents and is operated and funded by Emporia State University, Fort Hays State University, Kansas State University, Pittsburg State University, the University of Kansas, and Wichita State University.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Bryan, Jimmy L., author

Title: The American elsewhere : adventure and manliness in the Age of Expansion / Jimmy L. Bryan Jr.

Description: Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2017] | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017020133 | ISBN 9780700624782 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780700624799 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: United StatesTerritorial expansionHistory19th century. United StatesTerritorial expansionSocial aspects. | Adventure and adventurersWest (U.S.) | MasculinityWest (U.S.)History. |Masculinity in literature. | Masculinity in popular cultureUnited States. | Frontier and pioneer life in literature. | Adventure stories, AmericanHistory and criticism.

Classification: LCC E179.5 .B79 2017 | DDC 973.1dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017020133.

British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data is available.

Printed in the United States of America

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The paper used in this publication is recycled and contains 30 percent postconsumer waste. It is acid free and meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials Z39.48-1992.

For my mother
Candance A. Bryan

CONTENTS

This project originated in the late 1990s as I worked on my masters thesis at the University of Texas at Arlington. My topic was the biography of a Texas military figure, Walter P. Lane, and my sage committee members, Sam Haynes, Gerald Saxon, and Richard Francaviglia, encouraged me to look beyond the empirical minutia I had collected about his life. The task was both simple and complex. In his written recollections, Lane plainly revealed what he thought about his experiences. He was an adventurer who harbored a high opinion of his own manly qualities. I decided to listen to the stories he told. Stephanie Cole introduced me to what was then the relatively new scholarship in masculine studies, and that significantly enriched my understanding of Lanes career and the world he inhabited. I soon discovered that he was part of a reckless generation who contributed to the development of brash and chauvinistic narratives of territorial expansion, ethnic superiority, and nationalist exceptionalism.

My faulty memories of my studies at the University of Texas at Arlington have not diminished the debt that I owe. I am grateful to so many, and over the course of two decades, I have forgotten more than I have remembered. Thank you, Sam, Gerald, Richard, and Stephanie, and thanks to Douglas Richmond and Robert Fairbanks, all scholars who introduced me to the professional world of history.

I took my interest in these romantic adventurers to Southern Methodist University, where I entered the new PhD program in southwestern history. There, I gladly incurred further debts. As cochairs of my committee, Sherry Smith and David Weber were gracious, encouraging, and demanding. Sam Haynes joined my committee along with Edward Countryman and Crista DeLuzio, and I benefited from their depth of knowledge and incisive critiques. I would like to make a special mention of my SMU classmatesMatt Babcock, Constance Bishop, Alicia Dewey, George Daz, Jim Dudlo, Francis Galn, Bonnie Martin, Helen McLure, Kerry Oman, Amy Porter, Jos Ramirez, Jeff Schulze, and Clive Sieglegreat scholars and great friends.

I am also fortunate to enjoy the support of friends and colleagues at Lamar University. I have profited from the feedback generated during our brown bag seminars as well as the individual conversations and rants with Rebecca Boone, Jeff Forret, Mark Mengerink, Gwinyai Muzorewa, and Yasuko Sato. As chairs of our department, John Storey and Mary Scheer have provided valuable guidance. Our graduate assistants have performed numerous tasks, large and small, in support of my work, and I would like to especially mention the help of Robert Barton, Kevin Broussard, Casey Diaz, Valerie Domingue, Cassandre Durso, Adam Gorrell, Judith Nelams, Sabrina Odom, and Collin Rohrbaugh. I owe special debt, one that I could never fully repay, to Patty Renfro.

At the University Press of Kansas, my editors, Kim Hogeland and Kelly Chrisman Jacques, have exhibited patience and insightfulness, and I am grateful for their advocacy of this book. I want to thank Daniel Justin Herman and the anonymous readers of my manuscript for their willingness to trudge through earlier drafts and share their expertise.

I have also benefited from generous financial and institutional support. The William P. Clements Center for Southwestern Studies at Southern Methodist University provided the means for research in numerous archives across the country. A fellowship at the Filson Historical Library in Louisville permitted me the luxury of spending time in the rich collections there. Through a faculty development leave, Lamar University granted the time and funds for writing as well as research, and a residency as visiting scholar at the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at Brigham Young University provided the time and facility for new research, manuscript revisions, and enlightening conversations. I am grateful to Brian Cannon, Brenden Rensink, and Amy Carlin for their kindness and collegiality. To all the librarians and archivists at UTA, SMU, Lamar, the Filson, and BYU, and for those at Western Washington University, the University of Nevada Reno, and the University of Texas at Dallas, and for those at the many institutions that I have visited for this projectthank you for making my work as a historian possible.

I am blessed by the support of my friends and family, and I dedicate this book to my mother Candance A. Bryan. I especially want to express my gratitude to my wife, Liza Castillo Bryan, who first encouraged me to go to college and become a historian.

THE AMERICAN ELSEWHERE

In February 1847, news arrived at Bents Fort on the Arkansas River that the inhabitants of Taos, New Mexico, had revolted against their US occupiers. They killed the older brother of William Bent, one of the owners of the trading post, and he called on the available men to cross the nearly two hundred miles to the village and assist in defeating the resistance. A collection of twenty-three men respondedtraders and trappers, veterans and amateurs, Anglo- and Franco-American as well as mtis. Eighteen were employees of Bent, St. Vrain and Company, and the remaining five were independent men such as Lucien Maxwell, who had explored with John C. Frmont in 1842, and Lewis H. Garrard, an eighteen-year-old who had crossed over the Santa Fe Trail for the amusement.

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