Civil War in the American West

Alvin M. Josephy, Jr.. Vintage Books USA, $23 (288pp) ISBN 978-0-679-74003-2

This definitive history, BOMC and History Book Club alternates in cloth, is both the first comprehensive examination of the Civil War as it was fought west of the Mississippi and a fine account of the 1861-1865 Indian wars that drew thousands of Union troops away from the main Eastern theaters. Maps. (Aug.)

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