Following the Indian Wars: The Story of the Newspaper Correspondents Among the Indian Campaigners. (book reviews)

In 1960 Oliver Knight broke new ground with his study of newspaper correspondents who covered the Indian-white wars in the post-Civil War years. Although it fell short of being a definitive work, no comprehensive study on the subject has been produced to supersede it. Thus the University of Oklahoma Press has reissued the book in a paperback edition for the benefit of a new generation of readers. A helpful but basically uncritical foreword written by Sherry L. Smith introduces this new release.

Knight's purpose was to evaluate the work of news correspondents assigned to the ...

Read the rest of this article with a Free Trial at HighBeam Research.