[Rarebooks] FS: The Spanish Soldier in Colonial America

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

TITLE: “The Leather Jacket Soldier. Spanish Military Equipment and
Institutions of the late 18th Century”

By Odie B. Faulk.
Published in Pasadena by Socio-Technical Publications in 1971.

DISCUSSION: The life, equipment and ways of that most forgotten American
pioneer- the Spanish Colonial soldier. “The soldado de cuera was a curious
misxture- part medieval knight in leather armor with antiquated weapons;
part empire builder trying to bring an alien people under Spanish
subjugation; part farmer, trying to cultivate a few acres of farmland to
feed his family; part impediment to Christianity, with a tendency to
unchristian living that made the task of the missionary so difficult;. But
principally the leather-jacket soldier was a man, trying to survive under
a brutal military system that saw him robbed of much of his pay and
subject to the whims of authoritarian officers; attempting to raise a
family on a pitiful salary; hoping to stay alive on a bloody frontier.”

DESCRIPTION: Hardcover. 8.5”x11”, 80 pages, black & white illustrations.

CONDITION NOTES: Minor light foxing, minor wear, but otherwise clean and
nice, with a tight binding.

PIRCE: $100.00

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