An Apache Campaign in the Sierra Madre: 1883 (Expanded, Annotated)

John G. Bourke was one of the preeminent scholars of Native-American life in the 19th century. He was a soldier, a Medal of Honor recipient, an ethnographer, aide to General George Crook, and a friend of Indians. Like Crook, Bourke was outspoken and felt the "system" set up to deal with native peoples was not much of a system at all.

Yet like most of his contemporaries in the military, he was an instrument of the policy he felt was broken. In this lively and fascinating account of the pursuit of Geronimo and others in 1883, Bourke drew on his diary of the campaign.

Bourke has long been cited as a source on Native-American studies and none other than Sigmund Freud wrote the preface for the 1913 edition of Bourke's "Scatalogic Rites of All Nations."

A prolific writer, Bourke died a young man but left an astonishing legacy of scholarship.

Every memoir of the American West provides us with another view of the movement that changed the country forever.

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