| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 38.3

You have not been recognized as a subscriber to the WHQ online. About 191 words from this article are provided below; about 345 words remain.

If you are a individual subscriber to the Western Historical Quarterly, you may:: • login here if you have already registered for online access.; • Or if you're already logged in register your subscription.
• Set up your online account for the first time.
If you are not a subscriber to the Western Historical Quarterly, you can:: • subscribe here.
• Purchase a research pass to gain two hour access to the entire History Cooperative web site. You will have full access to current issues of the Western Historical Quarterly (104.3-present). Note: the Research Pass does not provide access to JSTOR's holdings of the Western Historical Quarterly.
Instititutions can:: • Subscribe to this journal and receive print and electronic issues.
• Activate your existing subscription so that we recognize your IP number ranges.

| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 38.3 | The History Cooperative

Book Review

Indian Wars of Mexico, Canada and the United States, 1812–1900. By Bruce Vandervort. (New York: Routledge, 2006. xvii + 337 pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, index. $34.00, paper.)

Bruce Vandervort has written a good book. The text is fast moving and nicely paced, as might be expected of the editor of The Journal of Military History. The topic is manageable and it covers a lot of ground on the maps, of which there are sixteen. Notes for the text run past fifty pages. Clearly, Vandervort has been influenced by Robert Utley's Frontiersmen in Blue (Lincoln, NE, 1967) and Durwood Ball's more recent, and more probing, treatment of the frontier army, Army Regulars on the Western Frontier (Norman, OK, 2001). Vandervort augments the work already accomplished by applying what he calls cross-cultural comparative linkages, something he experimented with in a previous publication, Wars of Imperial Conquest in Africa, 1830–1914 (Bloomington, IN, 1998). His argument is that only a wide-angle lens can bring into sharp focus "those aspects of the Indian wars of the USA that are truly 'exceptional' and those that are merely generic" (p. xii).

. . .

There are about 345 more words in this article. Please log in (or, if you are not yet an authorized user, please go to the User Setup page) to gain full access rights. Or if you're already logged in register your subscription.