Prairie Imperialists
AMERICA IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
Series editors: Brian DeLay, Steven Hahn, Amy Dru Stanley
America in the Nineteenth Century proposes a rigorous rethinking of this most formative period in U.S. history. Books in the series will be wide-ranging and eclectic, with an interest in politics at all levels, culture and capitalism, race and slavery, law, gender, and the environment, and regional and transnational history. The series aims to expand the scope of nineteenth-century historiography by bringing classic questions into dialogue with innovative perspectives, approaches, and methodologies.
Prairie Imperialists
The Indian Country Origins of American Empire
Katharine Bjork
University of Pennsylvania Press Philadelphia
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Bjork, Katharine, author.
Title: Prairie imperialists : the Indian Country origins of American empire / Katharine Bjork.
Other titles: America in the nineteenth century.
Description: 1st edition. | Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2019] | Series: America in the nineteenth century | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018023678 | ISBN 9780812251005 (hardcover)
Subjects: LCSH: United States—Territorial expansion. | Scott, Hugh Lenox, 1853–1934. | Bullard, Robert Lee, 1861–1947. | Pershing, John J. (John Joseph), 1860–1948. | Indians of North America—Wars—1866–1895. | Indians, Treatment of—United States—History—19th century. | United States—Foreign relations—1865–1921. | Imperialism.
Classification: LCC E713 .B64 2019 | DDC 973.2—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018023678
To Arjun, for all the reasons
Contents
PART II. INDIAN COUNTRY ABROAD
Spy Mission to Mexico: Lieutenant Colonel Robert Lee Bullard, 1911
Washington and the Border: Brigadier General Hugh Lenox Scott, 1911–1916
The Punitive Expedition: Brigadier General John J. Pershing, 1916
Introduction
Gray Wolves for Guánica
Nothing can be more preposterous than the proposition that these men were entitled to receive from us