An Honest Enemy: George Crook and the Struggle for Indian Rights Tapa dura - 2020

Hardback. New. Over the course of his military career, George Crook developed empathy and admiration for American Indians both as foes and as allies. As Paul Magid has demonstrated in the previous two volumes of his groundbreaking biography, this experience prepared Crook well for his metamorphosis from Indian fighter to outspoken advocate of Indian rights. An Honest Enemy is the third and final volume of Magid's account of George Crook's life and involvement in the Indian wars. Using rarely tapped information, including Crook's own diaries, the work documents in dramatic detail the general's arduous and dangerous campaigns against the Chiricahua Apaches and their leader Geronimo, action that forms a backdrop to the transformation in the general's role vis-a-vis Native Americans. In a story by turns harrowing and tragic, Magid details the plight of Indians who, in the aftermath of their defeat, were consigned to reservations too barren to sustain them, where they were subjected… Leer más

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2020. 1st edition. Hardcover. Collectible - Like New.

Univ of Oklahoma Pr, 2020. Hardcover. New. 554 pages. 9.00x6.50x1.75 inches.

Univ of Oklahoma Pr, 2020. Hardcover. New. 554 pages. 9.00x6.50x1.75 inches.

University of Oklahoma Press. New. Special order direct from the distributor