The Fighting Parson: The Biography of Colonel John M. Chivington (Great West and Indian Series) [Hardcover]

Reginald S. Craig (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Westernlore Pr (August 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0870260820
• ISBN-13: 978-0870260827
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,446,810 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2.0 out of 5 stars Biased Beyond Belief, February 15, 2002

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P. J. Orchard (Biggleswade, England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Fighting Parson: The Biography of Colonel John M. Chivington (Great West and Indian Series) (Hardcover)

Reginald S Craige is quoted as saying "I decided to write this book in 1955, after witnessing a series of television programs on the Sand Creek engagement, which I thought unfair and inaccurate.
Research and exchange of information with other persons interested in the same campaign convinced me that the known facts on this controversial affair should all be presented" the shame is that the book was ever written at all.

Throughout the book he quotes from Senate Reports, Senate Executive Documents, various "White" newspapers of the time, but nowhere in the entire book does he quote from any source other than from the white man, other writers have managed quite unbiased writings by taking the time and trouble to seek out information from all sources both white and red but not Mr Craige.

Interesting reading if you are anti native american but if you require a somewhat more accurate history of the making of the american west forget this book because it only gives the white side of the story.