Author background: John Gregory Bourke was a unique intellectual figure of the 19th Century: the soldier-scientist. He served with General Crook beginning in 1872, and was recognized in his own time as an excellent ethnologist. His eye for detail is phenomenal, and his humor, priceless.

[Originally appeared in the Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 8, No. 28, pp. 41-71.]

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