Historians and military men have had their say about the Indian
wars, which lasted from 1866 to 1891. But the newspaper
correspondents who took to the field with troops now get their
innings--if not the last word. And what they have to say, as
revealed by Oliver Knight, himself a former newspaperman, sheds new
and important light on twenty-five years of conflict extending over
half a continent.
Using a huge canvas, the author deploys the historical facts
about more than one thousand fights between troops and Indians, the
immediate, first-hand impressions of correspondents who
participated in the battles and skirmishes, and his own
interpretations from the combined evidence. It is as if the reader
himself had gone along on these expeditions, to see what was
happening, to assess the relative skill of commanders and their
troops, and to share both the dangers and the relaxations of
military life on the vast frontier beyond the Mississippi.
The correspondents were new men, not the old Civil War hands,
following troops that, in the years to come, were to be called "Old
Army." Frank, uninhibited, and, above all, daring, they knew what
the fighting was about, for they were in it, members of an
unsupported military element far advanced into hostile
territory.
Their adventures are related in the twelve major campaigns of
the period, ranging from the Southern Plains to the Sioux country,
and from Colorado to California, and involving tribes as various as
the Kiowas, Comanches, Sioux, Modocs, Utes, Cheyennes (both
Northern and Southern), Apaches, Bannocks, and Nez Perces.
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