The Diaries of John Gregory Bourke Volumes 1 4 1st Edition by Charles Robinson Iii ISBN 978-1574419351 1574419358

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ISBN 10: 1574419358

ISBN 13: 978-1574419351

Author:  Charles M. Robinson Iii 

John Gregory Bourke kept a monumental set of diaries beginning as a young cavalry lieutenant in Arizona in 1872, and ending the evening before his death in 1896. As aide-de-camp to Brigadier General George Crook, he had an insider’s view of the early Apache campaigns, the Great Sioux War, the Cheyenne Outbreak, and the Geronimo War. Bourke’s writings reveal much about military life on the western frontier, but he also was a noted ethnologist, writing extensive descriptions of American Indian civilization and illustrating his diaries with sketches and photographs.

Previously, researchers could consult only a small part of Bourke’s diary material in various publications, or else take a research trip to the archive and microfilm housed at West Point. Now, for the first time, the 124 manuscript volumes of the Bourke diaries are being compiled, edited, and annotated by Charles M. Robinson III, in a planned set of six books easily accessible to the modern researcher.

Volume 1 begins with Bourke’s years as aide-de-camp to General Crook during the Apache campaigns and in dealings with Cochise. Bourke’s ethnographic notes on the Apaches continued with further observations on the Hopis in 1874. The next year he turned his pen on the Sioux and Cheyenne during the 1875 Black Hills Expedition, writing some of his most jingoistic comments in favor of Manifest Destiny. This volume culminates with the momentous events of the Great Sioux War and vivid descriptions of the Powder River fight and the Battle of the Rosebud.

Extensively annotated and with a biographical appendix on Indians, civilians, and military personnel named in the diaries, this book will appeal to western and military historians, students of American Indian life and culture, and to anyone interested in the development of the American West.

Table of contents: 

Part 1: More Staff Duties

1: The Ute Country and the Mining Districts.

2: Into the Uintahs

3: Carl Schurz and Yellowstone National Park.

4: Wilderness Trails

5: A Trip East..

6: More Memories of Arizona

7. Fort Niobrara and the New Agencies.

Part 2: The Ponca Question Continues

8: A Summons to Washington

9: The Ponca Commission.

10: The Indian Territory

11: Agency Operations.

12: The Poncas Before Removal

13. The Dakota Poncas Speak

14: The Commission Concludes

Part 3: The Bureau of Ethnology

15. A New Assignment…

16. Bannock and Shoshone Customs.

17. Back to the Southwest.

18. In and Around Santa Fe

19. Navajo Country

20. Among the Zunis

21. “So That I Could Show the White Men”.

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