Review of Following the Indian Wars: The Story of the Newspaper Correspondents among the Indian Campaigners By Oliver Knight

Authors

Todd Kerstetter, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Date of this Version

1995

Comments

Published in Great Plains Quarterly 15:4 (Fall 1995). Copyright © 1995 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Abstract

Despite these criticisms, Knight's work has value. It offers insights into the daily rigors of nineteenth-century Army life and examines the sources from which much public knowledge of Indians flowed. Fans of military history may enjoy the book and may join the correspondents' armchair generalling, but readers interested in the correspondents and the history of journalism will have to wade through a lot of extraneous material to get what they want.