| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 106.1

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Michael L. Tate. The Frontier Army in the Settlement of the West. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. 1999. Pp. xx, 454. $34.95.

Contemporary western historians seem loath to note existing classics in their works. This book is a case in point. In chapter one, "Discoverers: Military Scientists, Ethnologists and Artists in the New Empire," Michael L. Tate neglects my book Army Exploration in the American West, 1803–1863 (1959) and Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West (1966), except for a slight reference or two. Instead, he depends on journal articles written long after those books. Consequently, chapter one is full of errors. Tate carelessly uses Major Edmund Gaines's instructions to an exploring party of 1834 as a model for instructions for the many expeditions of the 1840s and 1850s (p. 5), but those expeditions each had their own instructions. The author scarcely stops to characterize Lt. G. K. Warren's master map of the whole Trans-Mississippi West and John C. Frémont's and Charles Preuss's important maps are not even mentioned (p. 7). The five Great Surveys after the Civil War get one paragraph (p. 10). Lt. Wheeler's survey and Clarence King's survey, both sponsored by the War Department, receive all too brief mention. Indeed, so superficial is this chapter that readers should skip it. . . .

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