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Title: Perilous Pursuit: The U.S. Cavalry and the Northern Cheyennes by Stan Hoig, Stanley Hoig ISBN: 0-87081-660-8 Publisher: University Press of Colorado Pub. Date: June, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)
Rating: 4
Summary: A straightforward history of a tragic campaign
Comment: Stan Hoig's new book "Perilous Pursuit" is highly sympathetic to the Northern Cheyennes who, mistreated and betrayed by the US Government, were exiled from their Northern Plains homeland to the Indian Territory (modern Oklahoma). After a year of misery, a few hundred of the Cheyennes fled from their new reservation and headed north towards their old home. Immediately, the US Army was ordered to find them and force their return. Despite Hoig's sympathy for the fleeing Indians, he does not make the easy mistake of depicting the pursuing cavalry as villains. Instead, they are viewed as ordinary soldiers doing a difficult, dangerous job as best they can. Hoig does not hesitate to point out where individual soldiers stepped over the lines of acceptable conduct to murder indiscriminately, but he also does not draw back from recounting the murders and rapes carried out by young Cheyenne warriors during their exodus across Kansas. Plainly, virtue was not universally on one side.
My major criticism of "Perilous Pursuit" is the lack of adequate maps to clearly depict the movements of Cheyennes and Army units. What maps exist are somewhat generalized, lacking in details.
On the whole, however, I would recommend Hoig's book for anyone wishing to read a balanced account of a tragic event.
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Title: Morning Star Dawn: The Powder River Expedition and the Northern Cheyennes, 1876 by Jerome A. Greene ISBN: 0806135484 Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Tell Them We Are Going Home: The Odyssey of the Northern Cheyennes by John H. Monnett ISBN: 0806133031 Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: April, 2001 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Custer, Black Kettle, and the Fight on the Washita by Charles J. Brill, Mark L. Gardner ISBN: 080613416X Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: April, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Circle of Fire: The Indian War of 1865 by John D. McDermott ISBN: 0811700615 Publisher: Stackpole Books Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: The Fighting Cheyennes by George Bird Grinnell, Stanley Vestal ISBN: 0806118393 Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: April, 1983 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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