From the War of 1812 to the end of the nineteenth century, U.S.
Army officers were instrumental in shaping the American West. They
helped explore uncharted places and survey and engineer its
far-flung transportation arteries. Many also served in the
ferocious campaigns that drove American Indians onto reservations.
Soldiers West views the turbulent history of the West from the
perspective of fifteen senior army officers--including Philip H.
Sheridan, George Armstrong Custer, and Nelson A. Miles--who were
assigned to bring order to the region.
This revised edition of Paul Andrew Hutton's popular work adds
five new biographies, and essays from the first edition have been
updated to incorporate recent scholarship. New portraits of Stephen
W. Kearny, Philip St. George Cooke, and James H. Carleton expand
the volume's coverage of the army on the antebellum frontier. Other
new pieces focus on the controversial John M. Chivington, who
commanded the Colorado volunteers at the Sand Creek Massacre in
1863, and Oliver O. Howard, who participated in federal and private
initiatives to reform Indian policy in the West. An introduction by
Durwood Ball discusses the vigorous growth of frontier military
history since the original publication of Soldiers West.
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