Robert G. Athearn was professor of history at the
University of Colorado, Boulder, and the author of numerous books,
among them Forts of the Upper Missouri, Union Pacific Country, and
The Mythic West in Twentieth-Century America.
William M. Ferraro, assistant editor with the
Ulysses S. Grant Association, Southern Illinois
University-Carbondale, is also assistant editor of volumes 1 and 2
of The Salmon P. Chase Papers.
J. Thomas Murphy, who served as
assistant editor for four volumes of The Papers of Ulysses S.
Grant, teaches at McLennan Community College in Waco, Texas.
The author brings out clearly General Sherman's view that the principal function of the army on the frontier was to protect the building of the railroads rather than the protection of isolated settlements.... An important contribution."" - Journal of American History
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