John Gregory Bourke kept a monumental set of diaries as aide-de-
camp to Brigadier General George Crook. This third volume (of a 
projected set of eight) begins in 1878 with a discussion of the 
Bannock Uprising and a retrospective on Crazy Horse, whose 
death Bourke called "an event of such importance, and with its 
attendant circumstances pregnant with so much of good or evil for 
the settlement between the Union Pacific Rail Road and the 
Yellowstone River." Three other key events during this period 
were the Cheyenne Outbreak of 1878–79, the Ponca Affair, and 
the White River Ute Uprising, the latter two in 1879. He comments 
on issues in the military during his day, such as the quirks and 
foibles of the Irish soldiers who made up a large part of the frontier 
army, and also on the problems of Johnson Whittaker, who 
became West Point's only black cadet following the graduation of 
Henry Flipper in 1878.

    Each volume in the series is extensively annotated and contains 
a biographical appendix on Indians, civilians, and military personnel 
named in the volume.

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CHARLES M. ROBINSON III is a history instructor at South Texas 
College. He has written more than fifteen books, including Bad Hand: 
A Biography of General Ranald S. Mackenzie and The Court Martial 
of Lieutenant Henry Flipper. He lives in San Benito, Texas.



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