Paper Medicine Man : John Gregory Bourke and His American West

USA: University of Oklahoma Press, 1989. Soft cover. Very Good. P/B 362 pages, condition is very good. Winner of 3 Major A wards David Woolley Evans and Beatrice Cannon Evans Biography Award, 1986 (Co-winner) Spur Award for Best Western Nonaction Book, 1986 Western Writers of America Co-Founders Award for Best Book of 1986 Westerners International PAPER MEDICINE MAN "Bourke himself would have applauded both the scholarship and the readability of this long-overdue book. It is a splendid contribution to military and scientific history and to the history of the American West."-ROBERT M. UTLEY, Nebraska History. "I enjoyed Paper Medicine Man all the way. It becomes evident . . . that this must be the definitive history of Bourke. What an extraordinary soldier, what an interesting individual, and what a loss that he died so young. Joseph C. Porter's meticulous research has been intelligently organized and presented, and his delineation of the man is so careful that future historians must rely on this book."-EVAN S. CONNELL, author of Son of the Morning Star "[Porter] is both diligent in his research and artful in his prose. The combination produces an eloquent portrait of Captain Bourke."-PAUL L. HEDREN, New Mexico Historical Review. "The drama in 'Paper Medicine Man' cannot hide the sadness. Army politics deprived Bourke of promotion, and his military career never reached the pinnacle he thought he deserved. He suffered from extended periods of illness, aggravated by severe depression and hardly helped by his impatient drive to finish the scientific studies for which he had gathered so much material. . . . Porter's sympathetic yet properly critical account of this soldier-scientist at last gives Bourke the tull attention he deserves."-FRANCIS PAUL PRUCHA, Washington Post. "Joseph Porter is one of those all-too-rare individuals who demonstrate twin talents for impeccable research and excellent writing. These gifts, disciplined by objectivity, make Paper Medicine Man a most rewarding experience for the reader.-BUDGE RUFFNER, Arizona Highways. Joseph C. Porter, Curator of Western American History and Ethnology, Center for Western Studies, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, has published widely in the field of Western American History, and he has worked on museum exhibitions and documentary films relating to the American West. University of Oklahoma Press