"A highly regarded memoir of the Indian and Civil Wars. The author of this book, George A. (Sandy) Forsyth was a career soldier who served with distinction in the American Civil War and subsequently upon the western frontier against the Plains Indian tribes as they fought a losing battle to stem the inexorable advance of 'Manifest Destiny'-essentially 'the survival of the fittest'-'the law' as Forsyth writes, 'that has obtained since the dawn of...