News from the Front:

The Military And
United States Indian Policy
1865-1903

by Robert Wooster


The Military And United States Indian Policy 1865-1903 by Robert Wooster
Published by the University of Nebraska Press
ISBN 0-8032-9767-X
Price: 9.95 pounds

The University of Nebraska Press continues to turn out excellent quality paperbacks on the American Indian Wars at a prolific rate. Robert Wooster's book, first published a decade ago, is not a detailed study of army life and campaigning on the frontier, but rather a thorough analysis of the broader military approach to the west, which examines the development of military strategy in the aftermath of the Civil War on a national level. It looks at the attempts to develop a consistent frontier policy in the light of the Army's condition after the Civil War and the attitudes and outlook of prominent commanders, and the way these were affected by both political and practical constraints. It is not perhaps therefore a book for those seeking tales of high adventure and derring-do, hut it does provide a much-needed overview of the army's ideas and constraints which shaped specific events, and it should therefore he read by anyone with a serious interest in the subject.

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