The Civil War on the Northern Plains: John Pope's Military Policies against the Sioux in the Department of the Northwest, 1862-65
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Michael Burns
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 38, no. 1, Winter, 2018, pp. 77-103
Description
Argues that as Pope gained a greater understanding of the situation in the Northern Plains, he moved from an attitude of extermination to a desire to provide fair treatment of the "defeated" population.