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1989 book by Robert Ryal Miller is scholarly in tone, and includes some fascinating details, and indeed appears to have been well researched. Unfortunately, it is oddly incomplete. The book lacks the close up look at the prejudice faced by the immigrant troops, in combination with the severe ...

A fair number of wars that have been fought by the United States have been declared, at one time or another, to be "forgotten wars." Indeed a book about the Korean War even goes by that title, reflecting the relative interest by the public in that post WWII, pre Viet Nam, conflict. Some of these ...

Tom Smith mentioned this text recently, which caused me to think of it again. It is, indeed, a unique book.

"Indian Fights and Fighters" is a fairly short text covering a variety of the more notable battles of the post Civil War Indian Wars. It cannot be considered a definitive text on the entire ...

The Horseless Rider? What?

Actually, this text with the odd name is a unique riding manual. The author, an urban dweller, wrote the text to address the situation of riders like herself, that is people who like riding, but who cannot own a horse. Indeed, Ms. Burn viewed the situation as an ...

First of all, I can claim no credit what so ever for discovering this book. That credit really belongs to Philip Sauerlender and Joe Sullivan, who graciously advised me regarding it when I had located a copy. I am in their debt. Readers of the forum are probably already familiar with this book, as ...

Well, I've mentioned the book more than once so maybe I should throw it in here.

This heavy book was an effort by the late Russel H. Beatie to cover, in a single volume, the entire topic. The book sets out a history of the saddle, and some saddle parts, such as stirrups. The book also discusses ...

This CD is excellent.

Brass Mounted Army presents twenty six martial tunes performed by the California Gold Rush band. The arrangements are superb, their execution is flawless. Of the martial music performances I've heard, either live or recorded, nothing surpasses this one in this category ...

This is, as the name would indicate, a history of Mexico. What, you may ask, does that have to do with the horse, or anything military? Consider the following:

1. Mexico has possessed a genuine horse culture, contemporaneous with that of the Western US, indeed longer than it and influencing our own ...

Stephen E. Ambrose may well claim to be the best known military historian of the current day. His series of books on WWII, speicifically the combat soldier in France following the Invasion of Normandy, have made him a household name on the topic, and the virtually unchallenged expert of the day ...

Not a cavalry book per se, this book by John P. Langellier is an ambitious, and partially failed, attempt to catalog and describe the U.S. Army uniforms between 1848 and 1873.

The book has a very large content, as would be expected from a tome attempting to describe this particular period. It ...

Orignally published as a series of articles in Scribners in 1899, "The Rough Riders" is a fascinating first hand account of the United States 1st Vol. Cavalry during the Spanish American War. This unit, of course, almost defines that conflict in the popular imagination and Roosevelts boyant ...

This is the companion book to Gluckman's book on U.S. Martial Pistols. It's style is identical to the pistol book, and this book has the same stong and weak points.

Of particular interest to the student of U.S. cavalry, this book details nearly all, if not all, the carbines ever used by the cavalry ...

This book is an essential tretise for the study of U.S. martial pistols, covering not only standard adopted firearms, but also those purchased in numbers for trial. A significant amount of historical information is presented on the quantity of the firearms purchased, as well as the dates they were ...

I have to say that, to my eye, the new position is not the one I would instinctively use. That isn't to say it isn't correct (I haven't tried it), but it fights my instinctive position somehow. That probably says more about me than anything else.

Actually, my first option would have been to ride ...

Philip Sauerlender recently shared some photographs of the legendary Ft. Riley slide. These photographs illustrate two style of going down the slide which are radically different from one another. Pretty interesting change in method.

Here's the new method:
http://sites.netscape.net/patrickholscher ...

This book is a little off topic, so I'll keep the review short.

"They Never Surrendered" can only be described in terms that are normally reserved for novels. Blood-curdling, hair raising, spine tingling. It's a good read.

Douglas V. Meed, the son of army officer who had served along the US border ...

This slim volume (210 pages) is a short detailed history of the military presence on about 100 miles of the Oregon trail. It covers from the 1840s to 1870s, but focuses on the violent 1860s. The book centers on two river crossings, that of Platte Bridge Station and Richards Bridge, but covers a ...

This book is the work of Col Samuel J. Newland, a professor at the Army War College. Professor Newland, starting in the early 1970s, undertook a study of Soviet volunteers in the German Army during the Second World War, ultimately leading to this narrower topic. While the book is copyrighted in 1991 ...

This is a unique book, put together from the letters of a unique man, George Bent. It offers a very rare insight to plains warfare in the decade following the Civil War; that being the point of view from the Plains Indian.

George Bent was one of several sons of frontier trader Col. William Bent ...