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Book Review

General Crook and the Western Frontier. By Charles M. Robinson III. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2001. xx, 386 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8061-3358-9.)
As the Civil War concluded, a host of officers vied for positions in the quickly shrinking American army. A few, such as William T. Sherman and Philip Henry Sheridan, turned to organizing the army of the West. Others swallowed their pride and took command of lonely western outposts at reduced ranks. Charles M. Robinson III's biography of the "famed" Indian fighter, Gen. George Crook, surveys the life of one of those post–Civil War generals; Crook was not really the hero portrayed by early historians and newspapers, but rather, according to the author, an enigma. Put simply, Crook lacked the determination of a Sherman, the aggressiveness of a Ulysses S. Grant, or the fabled quest for glory of a George Armstrong Custer. . . .
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