Bourke served for years as aide to General George Crook, and this memoir follows him from frontier Arizona and the Apache campaigns to the great Sioux war of 1876 in the unmapped country north of the Platte. He writes of scouts, packers, miners and soldiers, of Apache and Lakota leaders, of hard marches and battles, and of Crook himself.
One of the essential firsthand books on the Indian wars, by an officer who was also a keen ethnologist. Download the free EPUB.