About the Author

Robert G. Athearn was professor of history at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and the author of numerous books, among them Forts of the Upper Missouri, Union Pacific Country, and The Mythic West in Twentieth-Century America.

William M. Ferraro, assistant editor with the Ulysses S. Grant Association, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, is also assistant editor of volumes 1 and 2 of The Salmon P. Chase Papers.

J. Thomas Murphy, who served as assistant editor for four volumes of The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant, teaches at McLennan Community College in Waco, Texas.

Reviews

The author brings out clearly General Sherman's view that the principal function of the army on the frontier was to protect the building of the railroads rather than the protection of isolated settlements.... An important contribution."" - Journal of American History

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