BOOK REVIEWS
Guarding the Frontier: A Study of
Frontier Defense from 1815
to 1825. By Edgar Bruce Wesley. (Minneapolis, Minnesota,
University of Minnesota Press, 1935.
217p. $2.50.)
The author who is head of the history
department of the
University High School and associate
professor of education in
the University of Minnesota gives in
this volume a study of the
frontier defenses from 1815 to 1825. He
treats particularly of
the defensive military measures adopted
against various Indian
tribes, but he also deals with the
defenses established against the
British and the Spaniards during the
period covered. The political,
military and economic factors which
served as a background for
the establishment of that policy are all
considered.
The volume contains twelve chapters to
which are added
four appendixes, two of which give a
list of Indian agents and
sub-agents and a list of factors with
their locations. A bibliog-
raphy and index complete the volume. The
practical value of
the book is increased by the inclusion
of maps showing: Approx-
imate location of the Indian tribes that
affected frontier policy,
1815-1825; Indian factories in the
United States, 1795-1822; units
of military administration in the
United States, 1815-1821; and
military posts in the United States,
1815-1825.
H. L.
The University in the Great War. By Wilbur H. Siebert. His-
tory of the Ohio State University, IV. (Columbus, Ohio,
Ohio State University Press, 1934.
320p.)
Professor Wilbur H. Siebert has added an
interesting volume
to the larger work and has incorporated
much valuable data for
students of the war period in its many
aspects. The story em-
braces an account of the activities of
individuals and organiza-
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