An Enigma at the Center - The American Scholar

An Enigma at the Center - The American Scholar

The Girl in the Middle: A Recovered History of the American West by Martha S. Sandweiss; Princeton University Press, 368 pp., $32 Few periods grip the American imagination like the bloody “Indian Wars” of the latter half of the 19th century. The Library of Congress contains nearly 80,000 titles on the subject, 800 of them from this century alone, and nearly all of them focus on bloodshed from the European perspective. Only starting in the late 1…