Don Troiani
Dragoon Soldier on horseback.
A Dragoon's Tale is a play in three acts about a fictitious dragoon officer and his exploits while stationed at Fort Scott. The play explores the activities of the dragoons along the Santa Fe and Oregon Trails and in the Mexican-American War. Students play the roles of dragoons, a Santa Fe trader, Texan "freebooters", Oregon pioneers, Pawnee Indians, and a Mexican Lancer. The program consists of the play, a map exercise and a discussion of the results of dragoon activity during the era of Manifest Destiny.
