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George W. Perrie

Best known for the frontier memoir Buckskin Mose, this little-documented 19th-century writer presents himself as actor, circus rider, detective, ranger, gold-digger, scout, and guide. His book has the energy of a tall tale and the feel of a firsthand adventure across the American West.

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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

George W. Perrie is the credited author of Buckskin Mose: or, Life from the Lakes to the Pacific, as Actor, Circus-rider, Detective, Ranger, Gold-digger, Indian Scout, and Guide, a work first published in the 1870s and later preserved by libraries and Project Gutenberg. Modern catalog records suggest that this is the main work securely associated with his name.

The book is presented as a memoir-style frontier narrative, with Perrie describing a life of constant movement and many changing roles. Booksellers' and library descriptions connect him with California and with western travel and conflict, though detailed biographical facts about his birth, death, and personal life are not easy to confirm from reliable sources.

Because so little verified information survives, Perrie is known today mostly through his writing rather than through a well-documented life story. That gives Buckskin Mose a special kind of curiosity: it stands as both an adventure narrative and the main surviving window into the author behind it.