The Most Promising Young Officer. A Life Of Ranald Slidell Mackenzie.

MICHAEL D. PIERCE

Publication: University of Oklahoma Press, 1993, Norman

First edition. 8vo. Cloth, gilt stamping on the spine, xiii [1], 288 pp., preface, introduction, illustrated, maps, notes, bibliography, index. The life of a Civil War veteran and an effective Plains Indian fighter."Mackenzie ranked among the best known and most effective of a group of young army colonels who led in the defeat of the Plains Indians and the opening of the West to white settlement...". As New in dust jacket.

Inventory Number: 51732