| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 36.3

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Book Review

Peacekeeping on the Plains: Army Operations in Bleeding Kansas. By Tony R. Mullis. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2004. xvii + 278 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $44.95.)

Just when one concludes that the last significant word has been written on a worn topic like Bleeding Kansas comes another study with something new to say. Tony Mullis acknowledges that other histories have explored the social and economic affects of the U. S. Army in the West. Peacekeeping on the Plains differs in that it examines the army not as a war-making agency, but as a policing force, intent on suppressing violence during a time of widespread suspicion of standing militaries. Since few studies deal with the army's role as an engine of law and order before the Cold War, Mullis's purpose here is to demonstrate that the precedent for twenty-first century "peacekeeping" operations has its oldest roots in the domestic crises of the 1850s.

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