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Soldiers West
Biographies from the Military Frontier
Edited by Paul Andrew Hutton and Durwood Ball
Published by: University of Oklahoma Press
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
420 Pages | 6 x 9 | 15 b&w illus., 8 maps
$24.95
This revised edition of Paul Andrew Hutton’s popular work adds five new biographies, and essays from the first edition have been updated to incorporate recent scholarship. New portraits of Stephen W. Kearny, Philip St. George Cooke, and James H. Carleton expand the volume’s coverage of the army on the antebellum frontier. Other new pieces focus on the controversial John M. Chivington, who commanded the Colorado volunteers at the Sand Creek Massacre in 1863, and Oliver O. Howard, who participated in federal and private initiatives to reform Indian policy in the West. An introduction by Durwood Ball discusses the vigorous growth of frontier military history since the original publication of Soldiers West.
“Impressive. . . . Soldiers West merits a place on every frontier military bookshelf.”—New Mexico Historical Review