'One of the finest and subtlest books ever written on an American frontier...[A] many layered and ironical masterpiece' - Malcolm Deas, "Times Literary Supplement". 'I find Eva Gillies' translation of Mansilla's work simply superb...[It] provides an excellent reconstruction of Mansilla's momentous journey as well as of his times' - Saul Sosnowski, University of Maryland. Lucio V. Mansilla (1831-1913), the widely traveled and cultured scion of a famous family, was a colonel in the Argentine army when he undertook an 'excursion' to the Argentine interior in 1870 to visit natives in areas then largely unknown. Mansilla's uncle, dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas, dominated most of Argentina from 1829 to 1852 and had led successful military expeditions against the frontier Indians in 1852. Mansilla set out for a reconnaissance into the tense border region just after a peace treaty had been signed with the Indians. Over the course of this expedition, Mansilla sent to a friend in the capital a series of letters which were then serially published in a leading Buenos Aires newspaper. His careful observations offer.
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