McDermott, John D. Circle of Fire: The Indian War of 1865.(Book Review)(Brief Article)

Stackpole. Oct. 2003. c.304p. photogs. maps. bibliog. index. 0-8117-0061-5. $26.95. HIST

With this work, military historian McDermott provides his seasoned analysis of the causes and circumstances of the Plains Indian War of 1865. Extensively researched, his detailed account traces battles between the U.S. Army and Native Americans that surrounded the establishment of the Bozeman Trail upon the northern plains. Beginning with hostilities in Colorado in 1864 that culminated in the vicious attack of Col. John Chivington at Sand Creek upon a camp of southern Cheyenne and Arapaho, McDermott traces …