On the Border With Crook

"On The Border With Crook." by John Gregory Bourke (1843-1896), who was a captain in the cavalry of the United States Army and a prolific diarist and post Civil War author. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions while a cavalryman in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Based on his service during the war, his commander, General George Thomas, the famed "Rock Of Chickamauga," nominated him to West Point, where he graduated in 1869, leading to service as an Cavalry officer until 1886.


He served as an aide to General George Crook in the Apache Wars from 1870 to 1886. As Crook's aide, Bourke had the opportunity to witness every facet of life in the Old West--the battles, wildlife, the internal squabbling among the military, the Indian Agency, settlers, and Native Americans. During these decades, Bourke kept a diary in sequential journals, documenting his observations in the West. He used these notes as the basis for his later monographs and writings including this book; "On The Border With Crook."


John Bourke wrote several books about the American Old West, including ethnologies of its indigenous peoples. In a preface to one one Bourke's Books, by Viennese psychiatrist Sigmund Freud. Freud wrote:


"He was recognized in his own time for his ethnological writings on various indigenous peoples of the North American Southwest, particularly Apachean groups."


Bourke, a keen observer, & student of Indian cultures, as well as, the flora & fauna of the Western posts at which he was stationed, was a participant in the Apache Wars & the late Plains Indian wars that resulted in the Custer Massacre. "On The Border With Crook," shows Indian life, the life of the U. S. Cavalry, & the reasons for the White settler/Indian conflicts in the vivd detail of one personally involved.


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