Frontier Soldier

"Not many enlisted men recorded their adventures in Indian

warfare. Still fewer actually kept a journal to lend immediacy to

their observations. Frontier Soldier is such a journal, by a literate

private who left his story of plains warfare in a chronicle rich in

detail. It is the richer for the annotations of Jerome A. Greene,

whose understanding of the campaigns in which Zimmer

marched is surpassed by few historians."

-Robert M. Utley, author of Cavalier in Buckskin: George Armstrong Custer and the Western Military Frontier