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An Honest Enemy - George Crook and the Struggle for Indian Rights (Hardcover)
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An Honest Enemy - George Crook and the Struggle for Indian Rights (Hardcover)
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Over the course of his military career, George Crook developed
empathy and admiration for American Indians both as foes and as
allies. As Paul Magid has demonstrated in the previous two volumes
of his groundbreaking biography, this experience prepared Crook
well for his metamorphosis from Indian fighter to outspoken
advocate of Indian rights. An Honest Enemy is the third and final
volume of Magid's account of George Crook's life and involvement in
the Indian wars. Using rarely tapped information, including Crook's
own diaries, the work documents in dramatic detail the general's
arduous and dangerous campaigns against the Chiricahua Apaches and
their leader Geronimo, action that forms a backdrop to the
transformation in the general's role vis-a-vis Native Americans. In
a story by turns harrowing and tragic, Magid details the plight of
Indians who, in the aftermath of their defeat, were consigned to
reservations too barren to sustain them, where they were subjected
to impoverishment, indifference, and in many cases, outright
corruption. With growing anger, Crook watched as many tribes faced
death from starvation and disease and, unwilling to passively
accept their fate, desperately sought to flee their reservations
and return to their homelands. Charged with the grim task of
returning the Indians to such conditions, Crook was forced to
choose between fulfilling his duties as a soldier and his
humanitarian values. Magid describes Crook's struggle to reconcile
these conflicting concerns while promoting policies he regarded as
essential to the welfare of the Indians in the face of a hostile
public, jealous fellow officers, and an unsympathetic government
that regarded his efforts as quixotic and misguided. Here is a tale
that readers will not soon forget.
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