| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 38.3

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| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 38.3 | The History Cooperative

*Colonel Richard Irving Dodge: The Life and Times of a Career Army Officer.* By Wayne R. Kime. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2006. xvii + 646 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $45.00.)
Having completed the monumental task of editing and annotating four of Richard Irving Dodge's frontier journals for publication, Wayne R. Kime polishes it off with a long-overdue biography of Dodge himself.	1
Colonel Richard Irving Dodge: The Life and Times of a Career Army Officer gives a complete account of this soldier-author, who is as well-known to western historians for his writings as for his military service. Dodge's career on the post-Civil War frontier is familiar. While a complete biography, the book truly shines in Kime's account of Dodge's life prior to 1865, first as a young lieutenant in Antebellum Texas, then as a behind-the-lines officer in the Union Army. He delves into Dodge's background, his birth in North Carolina and his family connections both in that state and in New York. (He was a grand-nephew of Washington Irving.)	. . .

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