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The Gray Fox: George Crook and the Indian Wars Hardback - 2015

by Paul Magid

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George Crook was one of the most prominent military figures of the late-nineteenth-century Indian Wars. Yet today his name is largely unrecognized despite the important role he played in such pivotal events in western history as the Custer fight at the Little Big Horn, the death of Crazy Horse, and the Geronimo campaigns. As Paul Magid portrays Crook in this highly readable second volume of a projected three-volume biography, the general was an innovative and eccentric soldier, with a complex and often contradictory personality, whose activities often generated intense controversy. Though known for his uncompromising ferocity in battle, he nevertheless respected his enemies and grew to know and feel compassion for them.

Describing campaigns against the Paiutes, Apaches, Sioux, and Cheyennes, Magid's vivid narrative explores Crook's abilities as an Indian fighter. The Apaches, among the fiercest peoples in the West, called Crook the Gray Fox after an animal viewed in their culture as a herald of impending death. Generals Grant and Sherman both regarded him as indispensable to their efforts to subjugate the western tribes. Though noted for his aggressiveness in combat, Crook was a reticent officer who rarely raised his voice, habitually dressed in shabby civilian attire, and often rode a mule in the field. He was also self-confident to the point of arrogance, harbored fierce grudges, and because he marched to his own beat, got along poorly with his superiors. He had many enduring friendships both in- and outside the army, though he divulged little of his inner self to others and some of his closest comrades knew he could be cold and insensitive.

As Magid relates these crucial episodes of Crook's life, a dominant contradiction emerges: while he was an unforgiving warrior in the field, he not infrequently risked his career to do battle with his military superiors and with politicians in Washington to obtain fair treatment for the very people against whom he fought. Upon hearing of the general's death in 1890, Chief Red Cloud spoke for his Sioux people: "He, at least, never lied to us. His words gave the people hope."

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  • Title The Gray Fox: George Crook and the Indian Wars
  • Author Paul Magid
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition 1st edition
  • Pages 514
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Oklahoma Press, Norman
  • Publication date 2015-04-08
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Maps
  • ISBN 9780806147062 / 0806147067
  • Weight 1.85 lbs (0.84 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6.2 x 1.5 in (23.62 x 15.75 x 3.81 cm)
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Historical
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
    • Chronological Period: 1851-1899
    • Cultural Region: Western U.S.
    • Topical: Civil War
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress subjects United States, Generals - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2014042989
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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