“The author’s rediscovery of Lawton is a fortuitous addition to Army history.”—The Journal of America’s Military Past
“Shay also looks at family life, American society in the Gilded Age, the army, and many of the people whom Lawton encountered, such as Ambrose Bierce, Ranald McKenzie, Geronimo, Leonard Wood, Phil Sheridan, and Theodore Roosevelt. This is a rewarding read for anyone interested in American military history.”—The NYMAS Review
“Shay provides an excellent balance between Lawton’s life and the historical context in which he lived. Lawton was a man of his times who shaped the society he lived in and the wars he fought.”—Tony R. Mullis, United States Army Command and General Staff College, author of Peacekeeping on the Plains: Army Operations in Bleeding Kansas
“A well-written biography of this exceptional military officer. Shay’s prose provides context for Lawton’s early life, as well as his rise through the hidebound ranks of the late-nineteenth-century U.S. Army.”—New Mexico Historical Review
"Shay’s concise biography, a study in grassroots history, provides not only new context in the popular Geronimo Campaign of the American Southwest, but also offers fresh insight into a man who helped shape the landscape of the American frontier in an era plagued by conflict.”—National Tombstone Epitaph
