Ben Mcculloch and the Frontier Military Tradition

<p>“[A] well-written comprehensively researched biography.” — <i>Publishers Weekly</i><br/><br/>“Will both edify the scholar while captivating and entertaining the general reader. . . . Cutrer’s research is impeccable his prose vigorous and his life of McCulloch likely to remain the standard for many years.” — <i>Civil War</i><br/><br/>“A well-crafted work that makes an important contribution to understanding the frontier military tradition and the early stages of the Civil War in the West.” — <i>Civil War History</i><br/><br/>“A penetrating study of a man who was one of the last citizen soldiers to wear a general’s stars.” — <i>Blue and Gray</i><br/><br/>“A brisk narrative filled with colorful quotations by and about the central figure. . . . Will become the standard biography of Ben McCulloch.” — <i>Journal of Southern History</i><br/><br/>“A fast-paced clearly written narrative that does full justice to its heroically oversized subject.” — <i>American Historical Review</i></p>