After serving over fifteen years (1870-1886) with General George Crook, Bourke sat down to write this memoir of his hero. He brings to life the frontier, the plains, and the Southwest—as well as Native American heroes Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, and Geronimo. Combining strength and compassion, Bourke concludes, Crook carved out a space for himself in American history.
About the author
John Gregory Bourke (1843-1896) was a captain in the United States Army, awarded the Medal of Honor for his services as a cavalryman during the Civil War. A diarist and ethnologist, he wrote of the American Old West and the indigenous people. He is the author of The Snake-Dance of the Moquis of Arizona (1884), Mackenzie’s Last Fight with the Cheyennes (1890), and The Urine Dance of the Zuni Indians of New Mexico (1920), among other books.
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