Description: Now available in this accessible and fully annotated format, the diary, along with the DeWolf's personal correspondence, serves as a unique primary resource for information about the Little Big Horn campaign and medical practices on the western frontier.
Brief description: Todd E. Harburn, an independent scholar, orthopedic surgeon, and doctor of sports medicine, is coauthor of A Most Troublesome Situation: The British Military and the Pontiac Indian Uprising of 1763-1764. Harburn and his wife, Shirley, reside at the Straits of Mackinac, Michigan.
Review Quotes: This newly edited treatment of Dr. James M. DeWolf's field diary and letters to his wife is a welcome supplement to the literature of Custer's last campaign. In humanizing DeWolf and other participants, editor Todd E. Harburn casts further light on the campaign's medical needs and procedures during the weeks preceding its disastrous finale and thereby bolsters our understanding of the battle of the Little Big Horn.--Jerome A. Greene, author of American Carnage: Wounded Knee, 1890