Andrew E. Masich is President and CEO of the Smithsonian-affiliated Senator John Heinz History Center and teaches history at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. He is author of The Civil War in Arizona: The Story of the California Volunteers, 1861-1865 and coauthor of Cheyenne Dog Soldiers: A Ledgerbook History of Coups and Combat and Halfbreed: The Remarkable True Story of George Bent.
"This outstanding book sets the new benchmark for an understanding
of the Civil War in the Southwestern borderlands." --Pacific
Historical Review
"Civil War in the Southwest Borderlands is a landmark achievement,
sure to prompt a rethinking of the transnational dimensions of the
Civil War in the Far West and the unprecedented violence of those
years. For scholars and general readers alike, this is a rare and
welcome book."--David Fridtjof Halaas, former Colorado State
Historian and consultant to the Northern Cheyenne Tribe
"Andrew Masich presents a sweeping history of the violence that
inflamed the Southwest Borderlands in the mid-1860s. Anglos,
Indians, and Hispanics, all engaged in what Masich terms civil
wars. This is impressive scholarship: deeply researched, eminently
readable, and rich in detail and interpretation."--Robert M. Utley,
author of The Indian Frontier, 1846-1890
"Sweeping in scale yet finely grained, the story Andrew Masich
delivers here is a convincing new way of thinking about the 'civil
wars' that devastated the Southwest Borderlands between 1861 and
1867. Indians, Hispanos, and Anglos waged war within and across
ethnic divisions amid a swirl of strategies and tactics that
produced a landscape of violence. Beyond re-creating the stench of
sweat, the urgent song of swift arrows, and the concussion of field
artillery, Masich underscores the bloody ironies of 'pacification'
and political incorporation. A masterful storyteller, Masich has
quickened a deserving story."--James F. Brooks, author of Captives
and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest
Borderlands, and Mesa of Sorrows: A History of the Awat'ovi
Massacre.
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