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John G. Bourke

About the Author

John Gregory Bourke (1843-1896) was a captain in the United States Army, awarded the Medal of Honor for his services as a cavalryman during the Civil War. A diarist and ethnologist, he wrote of the American Old West and the indigenous people. He is the author of The Snake-Dance of the Moquis of Arizona (1884), Mackenzie’s Last Fight with the Cheyennes (1890), and The Urine Dance of the Zuni Indians of New Mexico (1920), among other books.

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