Great Plains Studies, Center for
Date of this Version
1996
Abstract
A principal problem with this presentation is the technical quality of the pictorial reproductions, which is somber indeed. Moreoever, the world shown here is almost entirely male: the crowd scenes include comparatively few women, and only one woman's portrait (Annie Red Shirt's) is admitted. What does this reflect-the bias of the photographers, the realities of the age, or perhaps a combination of both? The presentation of the material, well organized and clear as it is, also would have profitted from numbered pages.
Although some statements here and there in the text are questionable-that the cost of the frontier wars, for example, was a million dollars for every Indian killed-the work's multi-dimensional approach brings new life to a much-debated aspect of Amercan frontier history.
Comments
Published in Great Plains Quarterly 16:1 (Winter 1996). Copyright © 1996 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.