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John Finerty Reports the Sioux War (Hardcover)
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John Finerty Reports the Sioux War (Hardcover)
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In War-Path and Bivouac, published in 1890, John Finerty
(1846-1908) recalled his summer following George Crook's infamous
campaign against the Sioux in 1876. Historians have long surmised
that Finerty's correspondence covering the campaign for the Chicago
Times reappeared in its entirety in Finerty's celebrated book. But
that turns out not to be the case, as readers will discover in this
remarkable volume. In print at last, this collection of Finerty's
letters and telegrams to his hometown newspaper, written from the
field during Crook's campaign, conveys the full extent of the
reporter's experience and observations during this time of great
excitement and upheaval in the West. An introduction and
annotations by Paul L. Hedren, a lifelong historian of the period,
provide ample biographical and historical background for Finerty's
account. Four times under fire, giving as well as he got, Finerty
reported on the action with the immediacy of an unfolding wartime
story. To his riveting dispatches on the Rosebud and Slim Buttes
battles, this collection adds accounts of the lesser-known Sibley
scout and the tortures of the campaign trail, penned by a keen-eyed
newsman who rode at the front through virtually all of the action.
Here, too, is an intimate look at the Black Hills gold rush and at
principal towns like Deadwood and Custer City, captured in the
earliest moments of their colorful history. Hedren's introduction
places Finerty not only on the scene in Wyoming, Montana, and
Dakota during the Indian campaign, but also in the context of
battlefield journalism at a critical time in its evolution.
Publication of this volume confirms John Finerty's outsize role in
that historical moment.
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