NMLP P-035623 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-09

On the Border with Crook

John G. Bourke · Charles Scribner's Sons (New York) · 1891

Bourke served as a captain in the Third Cavalry and as aide-de-camp to General George Crook through Crook's Arizona Territory campaigns against the Apache and his later Department of the Platte campaigns against the Sioux, and this memoir is a standard firsthand account of the Apache wars fought in the Arizona Territory in the 1870s and 1880s

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-035623 for "On the Border with Crook" by John G. Bourke (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-035623, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).