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Sagebrush Soldier is an account of military life during the Indian Wars in the late nineteenth-century West. Private William Earl Smith describes daily camp lif

In the years following the Civil War, the U.S. Army underwent a professional decline. Soldiers served their enlistments at remote, nameless posts from Arizona t

This is the dramatic story of the most crucial year in the history of the American West, 1876, when the wars between the United States Government and the Indian

Based on a wide range of sources, including materials only recently made available to researchers, this first complete, carefully documented biography of Miles

Henry Ware Lawton’s nearly four decades as a professional soldier in the U.S. Army tie his story closely to that of America in the nineteenth century, from th