The Military and United States Indian Policy 1865-1903 - Softcover

Wooster, Robert Allen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 080329767X ISBN 13: 9780803297678

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press, 1995

Synopsis

'A model of analytical history. In...spare, cogent prose, Wooster delineates military strategy against the western tribes, places the political influence of the Gilded Age military establishment in solid perspective, gives an able survey of the institutional structure of the postwar army, briefly describes key Indian campaigns, and presents pithy characterizations of leading western military personalities...Wooster's book places events in a national, and in military terms international, context. In so doing he has made a major contribution to frontier and military scholarship' - Paul Andrew Hutton, "American Historical Review".'A superior and important book...Wooster succinctly identifies and illumines significant truths about the military establishment and its role in the final stages of confrontation and conflict along the western Indian frontier' - Robert M. Utley, "Journal of American History". 'A provocative example of the new historiography...Students of the Indian wars have frequently suffered from a form of myopia...until now, no one has undertaken so comprehensive or critical a look at the army's role in formulating and implementing Indian policy' - Bruce Dinges, "New Mexico Historical Review". Robert Wooster, an associate professor of history at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, is the author of "Nelson A. Miles" and the "Twilight of the Frontier Army" (Nebraska 1993).

About this title

About the Author:

Robert Wooster, an associate professor of history at Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi, is the author of Nelson A. Miles and the Twilight of the Frontier Army (Nebraska 1993).

From Library Journal:

The conflict between the cavalry and Native Americans has long fascinated both scholars and the public. Wooster's study is the first to analyze the federal government's strategic policy against the Indians during the post-Civil War era. With typical scholarly thoroughness he proves that neither the government nor the army carried out cogent or systematic policies during the period of westward expansion. While this conclusion is unsurprising, Wooster excels in portraying the complex social, military, and geographic problems that faced the postwar army. Recommended to academic and military collections. Raymond L. Puffer, U.S. Air Force History Prog., Los Angeles
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About this edition

• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 080329767X
• ISBN 13: 9780803297678
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 268