Paper Medicine Man: John Gregory Bourke and His American West

by Joseph C. Porter

Book Overview

John Gregory Bourke was a U.S. Army officer who became an ethnologist, military historian, and prolific writer on the American West. Bourke spent most of his military service in the post-Civil War West. After graduating from West Point, he fought in last-stand battles with the Sioux, Northern Cheyennes, and Apaches. He was in General George Crook's command, pursuing the fugitive Chiricahua Apaches into the rugged Sierra Madre.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806122188
• ISBN13: 9780806122182
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 394 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Paper Medicine Man

Well done analysis revealing both the prejudices of a Victorian American soldier who participated willingly in the Indian Wars, and later grew to have second thoughts about Washington's Indian Policy.