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Title: Broadax and Bayonet: The Role of the United States Army in the Development of the Northwest, 1815-1860 by Francis Paul Prucha ISBN: 0-8032-5151-3 Publisher: University of Nebraska Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Quite Interesting.
Comment: For those of us today that would like to think that the role of the US Army should be only fighting wars, you need to read this book. From the very founding of our nation, our Army has served as both an instrument of waging war and an instrument of waging peace.
This book goes a long way to defining the Army's role in the settlement of the Old Northwest. The author reviews the Army's roles in public works, the building of public roads, its taming of the wilderness, its scientific achievements and its role as frontier policeman.
This is a short work but a very good companion to Robert Utley's Frontiersmen in Blue. In times of peace, the American military's impact is every bit as important to the development and protection of America as it is in time of war. This excellent little book reveals that the Army has always been an instrument of America's development and most likely always will be.
Rating: 5
Summary: Mixblood Identity in Penn's All My Sins Are Relatives:
Comment: Penn has led me to insight into my own mixed-up family as my mother seems to have forgotten her own mixblood memory--had it not been for my grandparents, I would have never known my great-grandparents were members of the Delaware nation. Racial shame is the wrong way to bring up your children, and Penn clearly depicts the suffering it inflicts upon the entire family.
I think that good autobiography brings us to that space and place in our humanity where we must stop and rethink America's history so we do not continue to make the same mistakes again. Penn relates how American history has affected his own family from Chief Joseph to the present. What I enjoyed most was the way he wove textual criticism of other Native authors and their works into the story of his life. He is truly a gifted storyteller, and knows how to connect with his reader.
Rating: 5
Summary: Original, Refreshing, Instructive
Comment: This is an amazing book. It is hard to write about one's own family and make it interesting. To go further and make it not only interesting, but relevant to others, takes a writer of rare talent. Penn is clearly such a writer, and I was very pleasantly surprised at the creative and original approach taken in this work. The author draws thought-provoking parallels and connections between his own mixblood Indian family's dreams, visions, failures and successes, and those of other families, in particular other native and mixed-blood families, including exploration of the writing of many historical native American figures. This is a creative and very original book, highly recommended.
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Title: The sword of the Republic: The United States Army on the frontier, 1783-1846 by Francis Paul Prucha ISBN: 0253288002 Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: 1977 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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