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George W. Perrie

An elusive 19th-century writer, George W. Perrie is remembered for a colorful frontier memoir that reads like a parade of American adventure. His book follows a life spent moving through the West as an actor, circus rider, detective, ranger, gold-digger, scout, and guide.

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Buckskin Mose Or, Life From the Lakes to the Pacific, as Actor, Circus-Rider, Detective, Ranger, Gold-Digger, Indian Scout, and Guide.

Buckskin Mose Or, Life From the Lakes to the Pacific, as Actor, Circus-Rider, Detective, Ranger, Gold-Digger, Indian Scout, and Guide.

by George W. Perrie

About the author

Very little biographical information about George W. Perrie is easy to confirm from reliable online sources, which gives him an air of mystery. What is clearly documented is his connection to Buckskin Mose; or, Life from the Lakes to the Pacific, as Actor, Circus-Rider, Detective, Ranger, Gold-Digger, Indian Scout, and Guide, a memoir-style work first published in 1873.

The book presents an energetic, larger-than-life account of frontier living and was issued as a work "written by himself," with editing and illustrations credited to C. G. Rosenberg. Modern library and public-domain records consistently link Perrie to this title, and it remains the work for which he is known today.

Because so few dependable details about his personal life are readily available, Perrie is best introduced through the voice of his writing: brisk, adventurous, and full of the rough-and-ready spirit that 19th-century readers expected from tales of the American West.