| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 33.3

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Book Review

Army Regulars on the Western Frontier, 1848-1861. By Durwood Ball. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2001. xxxi + 287 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95.)

The idea behind this book is sound: there has been no one-volume treatment of the U. S. Army's military operations in the West, although Michael Tate's recent The Frontier Army in the Settlement of the West (Norman, 1999) tried to address the army's contributions in a wide range of fields, from early exploration to public education. As for treatment of army operations, though, Indian campaigns (Robert Utley's Frontier Regulars [New York, 1973], for instance) have always received separate analyses from the rest of the army's role (Jerry Cooper's The Army and Civil Disorder [Westport, CN, 1980] covers much the same period as Utley's work). Not so in Durwood Ball's new book; the reader sees, in the third chapter, Colonel Edwin V. Sumner leading his cavalry regiment against the Cheyennes and, in the ninth chapter, trying to keep the peace in Kansas Territory. This is an admirable idea. . . .

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