Eyewitnesses to the Indian Wars

April 1, 2002
In this second of his five-volume series of contemporary accounts of the Indian wars (the first being The Struggle for Apacheria), Cozzens a foreign service officer with the U.S. Department of State has carefully selected accounts of the five major wars in the Pacific Northwest from 19th-century periodicals and newspapers that are not widely held and from some manuscript collections, and has placed them so that they provide an overview of each of the wars from cause to conclusion. Thus, articles that provide conflicting views, such as Chief Joseph's and Oliver O. Howard's accounts of the Nez Perc Campaign of 1877, are placed together. Editing has been kept to a minimum and serves mainly to clarify the text and make it more readable. This is a useful addition to collections on the West, the Pacific Northwest, and Native Americans. Recommended for academic and public libraries. Stephen H. Peters, Northern Michigan Univ. Lib., Marquette

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