The Indian Territory Journals of Colonel Richard Irving Dodge
The Indian Territory Journals of Colonel Richard Irving Dodge

Author: Richard Irving Dodge

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 524

ISBN-13: 9780806132570

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In these journals, Colonel Richard Irving Dodge, a well-known chronicler of western history and an authority on Plains Indians, provides an important account of conditions in Indian Territory from 1878 to 1880, a period of rapid transition. The Cheyenne-Arapaho reservation in present-day western Oklahoma was the center of Dodge’s activity. His writings offer a firsthand record of the 1878 retreat of the Northern Cheyenne, the conditions endured by Indians who remained on the reservation, and the jurisdictional conflicts between Army personnel and representatives of the Office of Indian Affairs. These journals also provide insight into Dodge’s character, with reports of his official duties as a military man and of several landmark events in his family life. Extensive commentaries and notes by Wayne R. Kime provide further detail, including a history of Cantonment North Fork Canadian River, a six-company post Dodge established and commanded in the region.

The Sherman Tour Journals of Colonel Richard Irving Dodge
The Sherman Tour Journals of Colonel Richard Irving Dodge

Author: Richard Irving Dodge

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9780806134253

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In summer 1883, General William Tecumseh Sherman took Colonel Richard Irving Dodge, his former aide-de-camp, with him on a 10,000-mile inspection tour across the northern tier of territories, on to the Pacific Northwest, south through California, and east through the Southwest to Denver. Dodge had no idea his journals would ever become public, so he wrote openly about his companions and their interactions, terrain and natural wonders, conditions of military posts, life in civilian communities, and what the future seemed to hold for the region and its changing population.

Colonel Richard Irving Dodge
Colonel Richard Irving Dodge

Author: Wayne R. Kime

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 682

ISBN-13: 9780806137094

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Best known today as the author of The Plains of North American and Their Inhabitants (1877), Dodge recorded his observations and thoughts in volumes of journals, letters, and reports, as well as three popular published books. 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, and sets his life in a rich historical context.

The Powder River Expedition Journals of Colonel Richard Irving Dodge
The Powder River Expedition Journals of Colonel Richard Irving Dodge

Author: Richard Irving Dodge

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 2015-11-09

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 0806176857

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Lt. Col. Richard Irving Dodge’s journals, written with utter candor for his eyes only, are the fullest firsthand account we possess of Gen. George Crook’s Powder River Expedition against the Sioux and Cheyenne Indians, which culminated in Col. Ranald S. Mackenzie’s resounding destruction of Dull Knife’s forces on November 25, 1876. Editor Wayne R. Kime, with his customary flair, has transcribed the journals from Dodge’s pocket-size notebooks and has provided a pertinent introduction and well-crafted, thoroughly illuminating annotations. Dodge’s journals will clearly prove useful to specialists in U.S. -Indian relations and the Great Sioux War, but they will also appeal to a variety of readers because of Dodge’s lively style and his range of subject matter. With vigorous intelligence, he describes such topics as General Crook as a military leader and strategist, the merits of infantry versus cavalry against the Plains Indians, the effects of subzero weather in Wyoming on a large army far from its sources of supply, and of course, the elusiveness of military glory.

Rough Enough
Rough Enough

Author: Richard H. Clow

Publisher: American Book Publishing

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 1589827139

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Advocate for America
Advocate for America

Author: Ralph M. Aderman

Publisher: Susquehanna University Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 696

ISBN-13: 9781575910710

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In later decades he played a continuing role in the cultural life of the young nation, numbering among his friends and associates a great many other writers, editors, and publishers.".

Buffalo Bill from Prairie to Palace
Buffalo Bill from Prairie to Palace

Author: John M. Burke

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2012-10-01

Total Pages: 397

ISBN-13: 0803244568

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Advance man, press agent, and publicist extraordinaire, John M. Burke (1842–1917) was instrumental in turning William F. Cody into the iconic persona of Buffalo Bill. And with this biography, published in 1893, Burke put the finishing touches on the legend that persists to this day. This new, definitive edition includes the full text and all the photographs and line drawings of Burke’s original, while providing critical background details on the literary sources, historical characters, and events that figure in the work. With “a few plain truths, unadorned,” Burke purported to give a frank account of Buffalo Bill’s life. Hostile Indians, gunfights, cattle stampedes: Cody’s Wild West was fraught with peril at every turn. This “Chevalier Bayard of American Bordermen” exemplified courage and daring while often narrowly escaping certain death and he earned the respect and admiration of not only his fellow frontiersmen but also European royalty. Burke recounts Cody’s duel with Chief Yellow Hand; his role as army scout, buffalo hunter, Pony Express rider, and international celebrity; and his associations with well-known figures like Kit Carson, Sitting Bull, General Phil Sheridan, and Queen Victoria. A brilliant instance of mythmaking by a true believer, Burke’s portrait of Buffalo Bill Cody as frontiersman and hero is a tribute to the romance of the Wild West and a canonical volume in the American story.