Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles Embracing a Brief View of the Civil War Or from New England to the Golden Gate

"A classic that belongs in any library of western history."-American West.In 1897, five years after he won the Medal of Honor, General Nelson A. Miles published his memoirs, often cited and now made widely available in this two-volume Bison Book edition. While relating his own colorful adventures, General Miles also ranges over time and space, taking into account fur traders, trail blazers, gold seekers, and missionaries. The first volume described his service in the Civil War and his campaigns against the Indians on the northern plains.Volume 2 follows General Miles to Washington Territory, where he com-mands the Department of Columbia, and finally to the Southwest, where he succeeds General George Crook in directing the fight against the Apaches. The pursuit of Geronimo is one of the many subjects illustrated here by Frederic Remington.In his introduction to the second volume Robert Wooster notes the importance of this memoir as a document on the Indian wars, extremely revealing of the character of a difficult but competent general. Wooster is an associate professor of history at Corpus Christi State University.Miles, Nelson A. is the author of 'Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles Embracing a Brief View of the Civil War Or from New England to the Golden Gate' with ISBN 9780803281813 and ISBN 0803281811.