Great Plains Studies, Center for
Date of this Version
Spring 2011
Citation
Great Plains Quarterly 31:2 (Spring 2011).
Abstract
Patrick Connor's War is the late David E. Wagner's second book in the past year dealing with the military operations against Lakotas and Cheyennes in the Powder River country of today's Wyoming and environs in 1865. Like his previous work, Powder River Odyssey, dealing with Nelson Cole's wing of an expensive army offensive operation against the Plains tribes in the wake, some contend, of raids on the Overland Trail avenging the Sand Creek Massacre, the current book relies heavily on campaign records, personal recollections, and diaries of the officers, civilian contractors, and enlisted men involved in the campaign. The volume is rich in detail and likely the most complete composite synthesis of these campaign records kept largely by men of state volunteer regiments. The book includes many maps that are easy to follow once one realizes the campaign traveled up and down river and stream courses rather than along modern roads.
Comments
Copyright © 2011 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska.