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by John Finerty, edited by Paul L. Hedren Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2020. Pp. xviii, 302+. Illus., map, append., notes, biblio., index. $34.95. ISBN: 0806165057
Reporting from the Saddle
Irish immigrant John Finerty (1846-1908), landed in the United States in time to see some service in the Civil War. Postwar, he became a newspaper reporter, and in 1876 he covered the “Great Sioux War” for the
Chicago Times. Accompanying Brig. Gen. George Crook’s main column, he was often involved in fire fights, though missing the Little Big Horn.
In 1890 Finerty published
War-Path and Bivouac: The Conquest of the Sioux. A
rather stirring account of the war, the book was long thought to have included all of Finerty’s numerous dispatches to the