| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.2

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| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.2 | The History Cooperative

Book Review

Frontier Swashbuckler: The Life and Legend of John Smith T. By Dick Steward. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2000. xii, 264 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8262-1248-4.)

Although the reader may approach this biography of John Smith T with some apprehension, even wondering who Smith T was, by the end of the reading there will be little doubt that the time and effort was well spent. Dick Steward has ably reconstructed the life of this exceptional man in a way that clarifies not only the subject but also something of the dynamics of power where he lived and operated. This is not to say that he makes great claims for Smith T, for he does not; nor does he attempt to gloss over or apologize for his subject's excesses. Rather, Steward presents a balanced and carefully researched picture of an individual often forgotten in the history of early Missouri and the Old Southwest. . . .

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