Tough Trip Through Paradise, 1878-1879 | 
| Authors: Andrew Garcia, Bennett H. Stein
Publisher: University of Idaho Press
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
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Pages: 409
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 4.1 x 1.2
ISBN: 0893012505
Dewey Decimal Number: 978.602
EAN: 9780893012502
ASIN: 0893012505
Publication Date: February 2001
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awesome April 27, 2008
I read this book many years ago and then lost my copy of it, so I ordered another one on Amazon. This is the most moving book I have ever read. If you're into non-fiction westerns, this is the book for you. I found the first half a tad slow but the second half was fantastic. To this day, when I think about it, it almost brings tears to my eyes. The story was written from the memoirs of Andrew Garcia, a scout for Custer and tells of his adventures traveling through the west with his native american wives. I loaned this book to a friend and he shares my enthusiasm for it.
Tough Trip Through Paradise February 23, 2008
I purchased this book for my husband. He enjoyed it and passed it on to other readers.
AS CLOSE AS I'LL GET TO KNOWING HOW THE WEST REALLY WAS January 14, 2008
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This book's handwritten manuscript was found in a dynamite box in its author's Montana cabin after his death at age 88. Garcia was an original Western settler, arriving in Montana in 1878, one year after the famous Nez Perce Chief Joseph's surrender. If you want authentic Old West, here it is. Garcia tells it like he saw it, favoring neither Native Americans or Europeans. He marries three Indian women (sequentially) and leaves his past world behind. This book has romance, beauty, humor, deadly adventure. Danger. Thrillers come nowhere near this true story. Most of all, Andrew Garcia's soul shines through his writing. What a dear, good man. I wish I could have met him.
'Tough Trip' has the ring of truth October 31, 2007
A Spanish-Texan quits his job wrangling for the Army in Montana to set out trapping and trading with the Indians. His stories - full of grandeur, intrigue, death and romance - never cease to have a ring of truth.
In Garcia's accounts he is never the hero, but rather the hapless greenhorn who escapes by the skin of his teeth and a generous apportionment of luck.
Written in true trapper/trader/rancher dialect, this book is a joy to read and a pity to finish. I love his insights and Tom Sawyer wisdom, self deprecation, and observations about life with the Indians (and life with whites).
tough trip through paradise 1878-1879 July 29, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
this is a great story from one who lived with the indians during the time before their decline. this book is hard to put down.
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