| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.3

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Book Review

Fort Randall on the Missouri, 1856–1892. By Jerome A. Greene. (Pierre: South Dakota State Historical Society, 2005. x, 264 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-9749195-2-7.)
Jerome A. Greene, a research historian with the National Park Service in Denver, has written a comprehensive history of Fort Randall, one of the many Missouri River military forts that served the imperial interests of the United States during its continental expansion era.	1
Greene begins by providing context for the establishment of Fort Randall in 1856 through a brief sketch of U.S. expansion into the Great Plains region from the Lewis and Clark expedition into the 1840s and 1850s. From there, the book develops three concerns: to show how the fort's physical layout and condition changed over time; to provide a social history of the soldiers' lives at the fort; and to illuminate the role of the fort in the U.S. conquest and colonization of the region.	. . .

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