Plains Indian Raiders: The Final Phases of Warfare from the Arkansas to the Red River

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Summary: Photographic Reference on Southern Plains Indian History
Review: "Plains Indian Raiders" by Wilbut Nye is a good addition to your library if you are an American military history buff or one profoundly interested in the history of the Native Americans of the Southern Plains. Mr. Nye's accounts are rather dry and too anglo-centric for my taste, but I purchased this book primarily for the extraordinary collection of photographs by William S. Soule which comprise about half of the book. These photographs of many of the principals in the book, and related subjects, help bring to life stories about the subjects of those photographs when reading other books which deal more intimately with Southern Plains Indian culture, such as "The Ten Grandmothers" by Alice Lee Marriott, "The Comanches: Lords of the South Plains" by Ernest Wallace and E. Adamson Hoebel, or even Mr. Nye's "Bad Medicine & Good: Tales of the Kiowas". The first two and a half stars of my rating are for the book as a whole. The remaining 1 and a half stars are due solely to the section containing Mr. Soule's photographs.

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Summary: a worthwhile read
Review: a fair well-balanced guide to amerind warfare that neither glorifies nor condemns such