Best known today as the author of The Plains of North American and Their Inhabitants (1877), Dodge recorded his observations and thoughts in volumes of journals, letters, and reports, as well as three popular published books. In this first biography of the soldier-author, Wayne R. Kime describes Dodge's early years, experiences as a writer, and forty-three-year career as an infantry officer in the U.s. Army, and sets his life in a rich historical context.Dodge, having sent off the explanation demanded of him, remained defiant. ... He did what he could aamp; failed, with no blame to fairly attached to him a as after all, it was a mere difference of opinion, aamp; at the very worst an error of judgment.
Title | : | Colonel Richard Irving Dodge |
Author | : | Wayne R. Kime |
Publisher | : | University of Oklahoma Press - 2006 |
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