Paper Medicine Man: John Gregory Bourke and His American West

by Joseph C. Porter

Book Overview

John Gregory Bourke was a U.S. Army officer who became an ethnologist, military historian, and prolific writer on the American West. Bourke spent most of his military service in the post-Civil War... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806119845
• ISBN13: 9780806119847
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.88 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Paper Medicine Man

Well done analysis revealing both the prejudices of a Victorian American soldier who participated willingly in the Indian Wars, and later grew to have second thoughts about Washington's Indian Policy.