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Article: The Nebraska Indian Wars Reader, 1865-77.(Review)
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- December 22, 1999
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Paul, R. Eli, ed. The Nebraska Indian Wars Reader, 1865-77 Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press 245 pp. $15.00, paper, ISBN 0-8032-8749-6 Publication Date: April 1998
Drawing primarily from Nebraska history, R. Eli Paul, a senior research historian at the Nebraska State Historical Society, has collected a dozen articles to create The Nebraska Indian Wars, 1865-1877. Aimed at readers interested in the history of the Cornhusker state or in western history, the anthology juxtaposes eyewitness accounts of crucial events and scholarly analysis to fill what the editor considers a surprising gap in the state's historical literature--the lack of a "comprehensive history ...