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Title: On the border with Crook (Classics of the Old West) by John Gregory Bourke ISBN: 0-8094-3585-3 Publisher: Time-Life Books Pub. Date: 1980 Format: Unknown Binding |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Read it if you love the old West and the frontier Army
Comment: John Bourke writes wonderfully of General George Crook, a legendary Indian fighter in post-Civil War Arizona, Wyoming, and Montanna. Bourke, who for most of the time was Crook's aide-de-camp, is an unabashed admirer of the General, but the book goes far beyond flattery and sycophancy. Bourke makes the reader admire Crook as much as he himself does, for Crook truly did possess unmatched stamina, experience, attention to detail and equal measures of sympathy for the Indians he was fighting and ruthlessness in his ambition to drive them onto the reservations. Bourke too admires the Indians, especially the Apaches. In fact, one of the book's high points is its almost anthropological descriptions of Apache life, the Arizona landscape, life in the frontier Army, and the social milieu of old Tuscon. The descriptions of Crook's campaigns against the Sioux and Cheyenne flag just a little, but only in comparison to Bourke's own rapturous discussions of life in the Southwest. The book that this compares best to is Eugene Ware's "The Indian War of 1864" (which I've also reviewed for Amazon). Ware, like Bourke, was a serving Army officer with a keen, sympathetic eye for all he saw in the old West. Both were involved in more hair-raising episodes than a dozen Hollywood action heroes combined. I too am a serving Army officer, and I can testify that none of my peers today has seen as much or writes so well.
Rating: 5
Summary: Post Civil War Officers forced Indians onto reservations
Comment: The concept of Manifest Destiny took root during the Mexican American War, and assumed grander proportions following the Civil War. Gen. Crook had been a calvery officer whose services proved to be of considerable value, as much for his ability as for his compassion for the Indians. His job was to protect the settlers and subdue the Indians by locating them on reservations. The author was with Crook during his first and second Southwest campaigns as well as that of the Northern Plains. His love for his commander and appreciation of the Indians made him the perfect writer for the topic. Gen. Crook seems the ideal officer for the job, but was defeated, not by the Indians but Agents assigned, after the army had done its work, to reservations by Washington. The book is a wonderful description of the duty performed by Gen. Crook who, had his system been utilized, would have led to a better life for all. In the end, Bourke feels, Crook died of a broken heart. Important history, and a story too beautifully told to miss.
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Title: Life Among the Apaches by John Carey Cremony ISBN: 0803263120 Publisher: University of Nebraska Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 1983 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The Fighting Cheyennes (Civilization of the American Indian (Paperback)) by George Bird Grinnell ISBN: 0806118393 Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1983 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't by Jim Collins ISBN: 0066620996 Publisher: HarperBusiness Pub. Date: 16 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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Title: An Apache Campaign in the Sierra Madre: An Account of the Expedition in Pursuit of the Hostile Chiricahua Apaches in the Spring of 1883 by John G. Bourke ISBN: 0803260857 Publisher: University of Nebraska Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1987 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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