| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 38.4

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Book Review

The Life of Yellowstone Kelly. By Jerry Keenan. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2006. xxi + 377 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.)

To say that Luther S. "Yellowstone" Kelly lived an extraordinary life would be a dreadful understatement. His was a life as adventurous and perilous as any frontiersman produced by the saga of the American West. Yet, today, knowledge of Kelly's exploits remains largely unknown. An unfortunate oversight, according to author Jerry Keenan, because, unlike other, better known frontiersmen, Kelly was able "to reach beyond the frontier of his young manhood to seek adventure and fulfillment" on subsequent frontiers (p. xxi). Whereas Kelly gained notoriety as a frontiersman and scout in Montana during the climactic years of the Northern Plains Indian Wars, his adventures continued as "new" frontiers opened beyond the nation's continental limits. Kelly participated in two expeditions to explore the Alaskan interior, and, during the Philippine Insurrection, he served with distinction as a company captain in a volunteer regiment. Seen in its entirety, Kelly's experiences should have cemented him a place among the most noted frontiersmen in the history of the United States. Thus Keenan's biography not only fills a great void in the historiography, it provides overdue recognition for the accomplishments of one of the great figures produced in the American West.

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