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In 1878 Edward F. Murray received the story of Nidever's adventures from the frontiersman's own lips, recording it as a document of one hundred and sixty-five pages, which was read to Nidever and signed by him as correct. The document which follows is the complete Nidever narrative as it was written down by Murray and prepared for publication by the editor. In addition to the human interest of the story, it throws light upon the struggle of frontiersmen with natives and with nature, and gives valuable information on a pioneer activity of marked historical importance. Also, it is a valuable contribution to the history of California in the fifteen years preceding the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. In a sense, George Nidever is a symbolic figure, a type , for the qualities of initiative, courage, and unswerving integrity possessed by him were likewise possessed in good measure by other pathfinding frontiersmen who pioneered. There were hundreds of men whose lives and experiences were so similar to those of George Nidever that when one writes of him one is writing of them all. Differing in details, in broad outline their lives mark these men as being of the same 'tribe' so to speak. Were it possible to recount the story of each of these lives and to tie the stories in with the developments which these live touched, we should have a true and full history of the Rocky Mountains and trail markers to the Pacific are unknown and unnamed in historical annals; so the original narrative of the life and adventures of George Nidever, a typical figure in a period of American expansion, becomes, as we shall see, both a fascinating and a historically important document.
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The life and adventures of George Nidever, 1802-1883
1984, McNally & Loftin, Southwest Parks and Monuments Association
in English
0874610583 9780874610581
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Bibliography: p.123-127.
Dictated by George Nidever to Edward F. Murray in 1878.
Reprint. Originally published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 1937. With new introd.
Includes index.
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