| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.3

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| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.3 | The History Cooperative

Book Review

Army Regulars on the Western Frontier, 1848–1861. By Durwood Ball. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2001. xxxii, 287 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8061-3312-0.)

Who among us ever thinks of the lackluster presidencies of Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, and James Buchanan as being central to the themes of American history? Beyond the issue of slavery and the impending dissolution of the Union, that is. Durwood Ball, a history professor at the University of New Mexico, does, and he says so quite convincingly in the book under review. In the period between two conventional wars in the nineteenth century—the Mexican-American War and the Civil War—the United States Army, he writes, conducted a wide variety of operations that both influenced and defined America's emerging Manifest Destiny. . . .

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