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Paper medicine man : John Gregory Bourke and his American West /

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John Gregory Bourke was a U.S. Army officer who became an ethnologist, a military historian, and a prolific writer on the American West. Most of Burke's active military service was spent in the post-Civil War West. After graduation from West Point he fought in last-stand battles with the Sioux,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Porter, Joseph C., 1946-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, 1986.
Subjects:
Bourke, John Gregory, > 1846-1896.
Indianists > United States > Biography.
Soldiers > United States > Biography.
Indians of North America > Wars > 1866-1895.
Indians of North America.
Table of Contents:
  • The young soldier
  • Bourke and the beginning of the Great Sioux War
  • Centennial summer: to the village of Morning Star
  • The mote in the soldier's eye
  • The education of an ethnologist
  • The road to Walpi
  • Zuni interlude
  • An Apache campaign
  • Natan Justa-Chuli, Captain Cactus
  • Natlsus-Bichidin, Paper Medicine Man
  • The Washington soldier
  • Lost causes
  • Scholar and gentleman: from the Potomac to the Rio Grande
  • The old soldier
  • Epilogue: "The land of Hossentin."