Colonel Richard Irving Dodge: The Life and Times of a Career Army Officer

by Wayne R. Kime

Few soldiers saw more of the late-nineteenth-century West and its peoples or made more friends and acquaintances, civilian and military, than the energetic and sociable Col. Richard Irving Dodge. In this first biography of the soldier-author, Wayne R. Kime describes Dodge's early years, experiences as a writer, and forty-three-year career as an infantry officer in the U.S. Army, setting his life story in a rich historical context.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806137096
• ISBN13: 9780806137094
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 646 Pages
• Weight: 2.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 7.2" x 10.3"