The Last War for America

H.W. Brands’ new book, The Last Campaign: Sherman, Geronimo and the War for America, is the story of the last years of armed conflict between two peoples from these different worlds: indigenous Americans who lived on lands in the world of nature and the irrepressible flood tide of white people determined to remake these lands as part of their new world. Brands focuses on the final years of the Indian Wars in North America, the post-Civil War period from 1865-1886, and the last and pivotal campaigns on the edge of the shrinking frontier.