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Part I

Indian Country

I began then an intensive study of every phase of the Indian and his customs, particularly as to how he might best be approached and influenced, a knowledge that has stood me in good stead many times, has doubtless saved my life again and again, and has also been used to the national benefit by different Presidents of the United States, by secretaries of war and of the interior.

—Hugh Lenox Scott, Some Memories of a Soldier

Map 2. Great Plains and borderlands. During the last third of the nineteenth century, American state efforts to consolidate control over the trans-Mississippi West were met with resistance. The map shows the areas of conflict that defined Indian Country for the post-Civil War generation of U.S. army officers like John J. Pershing, Robert Lee Bullard, and Hugh Lenox Scott.