Frontier Soldier: An Enlisted Man's Journal of the Sioux and Nez Perce Campaigns 1877

"Not many enlisted men recorded their adventures in Indian warfare. Still fewer actually kept a journal to lend immediacy to their observations. Frontier Soldier is such a journal, by a literate private who left his story of plains warfare in a chronicle rich in detail. It is the richer for the annotations of Jerome A. Greene, whose understanding of the campaigns in which Zimmer marched is surpassed by few historians." —Robert M. Utley, author of Cavalier in Buckskin: George Armstrong Custer and the Western Military Frontier