Get Thee Up into the High Mountain: A Survival Manual

Roquemore, Dallas C.; Kenneth Goff [Foreword]

Published by [Pilgrim Torch], [Englewood, CO], 1961

About this Item

Presumed first edition of a classic right-wing survival guide dedicated to "the survival of the people of God during the battle of the anti-Christ forces of Russia that have the overthrow of Christianity and America scheduled by 1970." Issued with color and black and white dust jackets, priority unknown. 174 pp., illustrated in black and white by the author. Musty odor, else Fine in a Near Fine unsophisticated dust jacket with light edgewear and trace foxing along upper edge. A very well-preserved copy of Reverend Dallas Clifton Roquemore's survival manual, an important bridge between the civil defense culture of the 1950s and early '60s, and the "prepper" movement that followed. The eleven chapters cover subjects like "Wilderness Clothing," "Traps and Trapping," and "Guerrilla Warfare," and the foreword by Soldiers of the Cross director Kenneth Goff urges good Christians to prepare themselves for nuclear apocalypse, "for he that careth not for his own household is worse than an infidel." In the end, it was not a Communist invasion that killed Dallas Roquemore. He died in 1964, at the age of 32, after pretending to be a prowler outside his own home in order to frighten his five children. The children were being looked after by Roquemore's brother-in-law, who (being a young, armed man who cared for his household) came outside and shot the intruder in the head. Roquemore had been an outspoken member of the paramilitary group the Minutemen, addressing a number of civil defense and conservative groups in his signature handmade coonskin cap and deerskin duds.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Get Thee Up into the High Mountain: A Survival Manual
• Publisher: [Pilgrim Torch], [Englewood, CO]
• Publication Date: 1961
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
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