| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.2

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Book Review

Blue Water Creek and the First Sioux War, 1854–1856. By R. Eli Paul. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004. xii, 260 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8061-3590-5.)

The violent, destructive conflicts between the United States and Native nations in the trans-Mississippi West between 1848 and 1861 spaded ground for the final, desperate wars that erupted during and after the Civil War. R. Eli Paul's superb monograph, volume 6 in the Campaigns and Commanders Series published by the University of Oklahoma Press, explores "the First Sioux War, its mundane causes, violent consequences, and lingering effects" (p. xii). Paul's book joins William Y. Chalfant's two excellent monographs, Cheyennes and Horse Soldiers (1989) and Without Quarter (1991), which analyze successful U.S. Army expeditions against the Cheyennes and Comanches in the 1850s. What distinguishes Blue Water Creek and the First Sioux War, 1854–1856 from its predecessors is Paul's ethnohistorical methodology, which incorporates a rich body of first-person accounts, Sioux among them, "recorded relatively soon afterwards" (p. xii).

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