Crook’s Western Destiny

As historians mark the conclusion of the sesquicentennial of the American Civil War and the beginning of the American Indian Wars that lasted from 1865 to 1890, Paul Magid’s The Gray Fox: George Crook and the Indian Wars (University of Oklahoma Press, $29.95) is the perfect military biography to bridge the two major conflicts that dominated United States history in the 19th century. In the second volume in Magid’s biography of Crook, the historian’s research is extensive and the biblio