Few soldiers saw more of the late-nineteenth-century West and its
peoples or made more friends and acquaintances, civilian and
military, than the energetic and sociable Col. Richard Irving
Dodge. In this first biography of the soldier-author, Wayne R. Kime
describes Dodge's early years, experiences as a writer, and
forty-three-year career as an infantry officer in the U.S. Army,
setting his life story in a rich historical context.Between 1848
and 1891 Dodge participated in the Great Sioux War, explored the
Black Hills, commanded infantry regiments, and served as an
aide-de-camp to General William Tecumseh Sherman. He was personally
engaged in the ongoing power struggle between the army and the
Bureau of Indian Affairs over how best to solve the country's
so-called Indian problem. Dodge was a paradox. He admired Plains
Indians and lamented the end of their way of life brought on by
confinement on reservations and the slaughter of buffalo. Yet he
also considered Indians to be ""savages"" who could be
""civilized"" only by threat of force. As Kime reveals, the
contradictions in Dodge's life and thought mirrored the ambivalence
that many Americans felt about Indian policy and westward
expansion.
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