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Under contract to the government, they supplied the army sent to fight Mexicans and American Indians. Without the wagonmasters, the flow of gold from the mines of Colorado and Montana, which proved essential during the Civil War, would have been delayed at least a decade.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Wagonmasters is the first comprehensive account of this colorful bygone industry and the men who worked the wagon trains-bullwhackers and mile skinners. A breed apart, they developed their own customs and language, greatly enriching American speech. 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As attentive to ekphrasis as to the sonnet's narrow room, Burt feels what he knows, and he knows that we can learn from the past only by repeating it. A grand achievement!\"--Richard Howard.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlmost all these poems are narrative, telling stories that turn on some small but crucial shift of sensibility. One hears in them a speaking rather than a singing voice, a voice which, for all its formality and gravity, remains oral and sociable, a voice which tells things rather than spins charms. Their predominant mood is lucid asperity, sometimes breaking out into the angry Calvinism they always barely keep down, sometimes striving to achieve a humane skepticism that always just eludes them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book consists of two sections, one concerned with the cruxes and contradictions of private feeling, the other with the unraveling of the public world. 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