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George Crook was one of the most prominent military figures of the late-nineteenth-century Indian Wars. Yet today his name is largely. As Paul Magid portrays Crook in this highly readable biography, the general was an innovative soldier, with a complex and often contradictory personality, whose activities often generated intense controversy.

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With graceful prose, thorough documentation, and a former lawyer's exactness, Paul Magid has the pulse of George Crook, the army officer Americans believe they know best as the shrewd and innovative campaigner who achieved extraordinary successes in Oregon and Arizona only to be trumped by the Sioux at the Rosebud in 1876. The saga of Crook's service in the field is well told here, but we come to see as well a budding humanitarian, a character dimension rare among senior army officers."" - Paul L. Hedren, author of After Custer: Loss and Transformation in Sioux Country

The Gray Fox George Crook and the Indian Wars

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      Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
      Publication Date: 4/30/2015 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780806147062, 978-0806147062
      ISBN10: 0806147067

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      George Crook was one of the most prominent military figures of the late-nineteenth-century Indian Wars. Yet today his name is largely. As Paul Magid portrays Crook in this highly readable biography, the general was an innovative soldier, with a complex and often contradictory personality, whose activities often generated intense controversy.

      Trade Review
      With graceful prose, thorough documentation, and a former lawyer's exactness, Paul Magid has the pulse of George Crook, the army officer Americans believe they know best as the shrewd and innovative campaigner who achieved extraordinary successes in Oregon and Arizona only to be trumped by the Sioux at the Rosebud in 1876. The saga of Crook's service in the field is well told here, but we come to see as well a budding humanitarian, a character dimension rare among senior army officers."" - Paul L. Hedren, author of After Custer: Loss and Transformation in Sioux Country

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