Verde To San Carlos: Recollections of a Famous Army Surgeon and His Observant F
by Paul Magid
Category: Biography & Autobiography

George Crook was one of the most prominent military figures of the late-nineteenth-century Indian Wars. As Paul Magid portrays Crook in this highly readable second volume of a projected three-volume biography, the general was an innovative and eccentric soldier, with a complex and often contradictory personality, whose activities often generated intense controversy.