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Gray Fox : George Crook and the Indian Wars by Paul Magid (2015, Hardcover)

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Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN-10
0806147067
ISBN-13
9780806147062
eBay Product ID (ePID)
208617427

Product Key Features

Book Title
Gray Fox : George Crook and the Indian Wars
Number of Pages
514 Pages
Language
English
Topic
United States / 19th Century, United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), Military
Publication Year
2015
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Author
Paul Magid
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
33.5 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in

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LCCN
2014-042989
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"With graceful prose, thorough documentation, and a former lawyer's exactness, Paul Magid has the pulse of George Crook, the army officer Americans believe they know best as the shrewd and innovative campaigner who achieved extraordinary successes in Oregon and Arizona only to be trumped by the Sioux at the Rosebud in 1876. The saga of Crook's service in the field is well told here, but we come to see as well a budding humanitarian, a character dimension rare among senior army officers."-- Paul L. Hedren , author of After Custer: Loss and Transformation in Sioux Country
Dewey Decimal
355.0092 B
Synopsis
George Crook was one of the most prominent military figures of the late-nineteenth-century Indian Wars. Yet today his name is largely unrecognized despite the important role he played in such pivotal events in western history as the Custer fight at the Little Big Horn, the death of Crazy Horse, and the Geronimo campaigns. As Paul Magid portrays Crook in this highly readable second volume of a projected three-volume biography, the general was an innovative and eccentric soldier, with a complex and often contradictory personality, whose activities often generated intense controversy. Though known for his uncompromising ferocity in battle, he nevertheless respected his enemies and grew to know and feel compassion for them. Describing campaigns against the Paiutes, Apaches, Sioux, and Cheyennes, Magid's vivid narrative explores Crook's abilities as an Indian fighter. The Apaches, among the fiercest peoples in the West, called Crook the Gray Fox after an animal viewed in their culture as a herald of impending death. Generals Grant and Sherman both regarded him as indispensable to their efforts to subjugate the western tribes. Though noted for his aggressiveness in combat, Crook was a reticent officer who rarely raised his voice, habitually dressed in shabby civilian attire, and often rode a mule in the field. He was also self-confident to the point of arrogance, harbored fierce grudges, and because he marched to his own beat, got along poorly with his superiors. He had many enduring friendships both in- and outside the army, though he divulged little of his inner self to others and some of his closest comrades knew he could be cold and insensitive. As Magid relates these crucial episodes of Crook's life, a dominant contradiction emerges: while he was an unforgiving warrior in the field, he not infrequently risked his career to do battle with his military superiors and with politicians in Washington to obtain fair treatment for the very people against whom he fought. Upon hearing of the general's death in 1890, Chief Red Cloud spoke for his Sioux people: "He, at least, never lied to us. His words gave the people hope.", George Crook was one of the most prominent military figures of the late-nineteenth-century Indian Wars. As Paul Magid portrays Crook in this highly readable second volume of a projected three-volume biography, the general was an innovative and eccentric soldier, with a complex and often contradictory personality, whose activities often generated intense controversy.
LC Classification Number
E83.866.C94M34 2015

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