Reminiscences of Conrad S. Babcock : the old U.S. Army and the new, 1898-1919 / / edited by Robert H. Ferrell

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910966528503321
• Autore: Babcock Conrad S (Conrad Stanton), <1876-1950.>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Columbia, Mo. ; ; London, : University of Missouri Press, c2012
• ISBN: 9780826272829; 0826272827
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (165 p.)
• Collana: The American military experience series
• Altri autori (Persone): FerrellRobert H
• Disciplina: 355/.0092
• Soggetti: Military art and science - United States - History - 19th century; Military art and science - United States - History - 20th century; World War, 1914-1918
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "Babcock's original manuscript has been shortened by Robert H. Ferrell into eight chapters which illustrate the tremendous shfit in warfare in the years surrounding the turn of the century."--Publisher's description.; "Suggested further reading about World War I"--P. 143-147.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Manila and Iloilo -- Insurrection -- Assignments -- More of the same -- Soissons I -- Soissons II -- Tactics -- The new Army -- Suggested further reading about World War I -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: The son of an army officer, Conrad S. Babcock graduated from West Point in 1898, just in time for the opening of the Spanish-American War. Because of his father's position, he managed to secure a place in the force that Major General Wesley Merritt led to Manila to secure the city. The Philippine Insurrection, as Americans described it, began shortly after he arrived. What Babcock observed in subsequent months and years, and details in his memoir, was the remarkable transition the U.S. Army was undergoing. From after the Civil War until just before the Spanish War, the army amounted to 28,000 men. It increased to 125,000, tiny compared with those of the great European nations of France and Germany, but the great change in the army came after its arrival in France in the summer of 1918, when the German army ; compelled the U.S. to change its nineteenth-century tactics. Babcock's original manuscript has been shortened by Robert H. Ferrell into eight chapters which illustrate the tremendous shift in warfare in the years surrounding the turn of the century. The first part of the book describes small actions against Filipinos and such assignments as taking a cavalry troop into the fire-destroyed city of San Francisco in 1906 or duty in the vicinity of Yuma in Arizona when border troubles were heating up with brigands and regular troops. The remaining chapters, beginning in 1918, set out the battles of Soissons (July 18-22) and Saint-Mihiel (September 12-16) and especially the immense battle of the Meuse-Argonne (September 26-November 11), the largest (1.2 million troops involved) and deadliest (26,000 men killed) battle in all of American history. By the end of his career, Babcock was an adroit battle commander and an astute observer of military operations. Unlike most other officers around him, he showed an ability and willingness to adapt infantry tactics in the face of recently developed technology and weaponry such as the machine gun. When he retired in 1937 and began to write his memoirs, another world war had begun, giving additional context to his observations about the army and combat over the preceding forty years. Until now, Babcock's account has only been available in the archives of the Hoover Institution, but with the help of Ferrell's crisp, expert editing, this record of army culture in the first decades of the twentieth century can now reach a new generation of scholars.

The future of Indian and federal reserved water rights : the Winters Centennial / / edited by Barbara Cosens and Judith V. Royster

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910962663603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Albuquerque, : University of New Mexico Press, c2012
• ISBN: 9781283637008; 1283637006; 9780826351234; 0826351239
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (387 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): CosensBarbara <1955->; RoysterJudith V
• Disciplina: 346.7804/32
• Soggetti: Water rights - West (U.S.); Indians of North America - Legal status, laws, etc - West (U.S.); Indians of North America - Legal status, laws, etc; Indians of North America - West (U.S.) - Claims; Water rights - Milk River (Mont. and Alta.) - History; Indians of North America - Montana - Claims - History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "The conference, "The Winters Centennial: Will Its Commitment to Justice Endure?", was held June 9-12, 2008, at the Santa Ana Pueblo in New Mexico ... This book represents much of the discussion that took place over the two and a half days of the conference and includes additional articles submitted by experts in the field."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The legacy of Winters v. United States and the Winters Doctrine, one hundred years later / Barbara Cosens -- The primary cases of the reserved rights doctrine: reenactments of the oral arguments / remarks of Thomas G. Fredericks, G. Emlen Hall, Edwin S. Kneedler, Joseph P. Mazurek, Mason Morisset, Jerome C. Muys, A. Dan Tarlock, and Jeanne S. Whiteing -- Winters in its historical context / remarks of Patricia Limerick and John Shurts -- Winters and the contemporary landscape / John E. Thorson -- One hundred years after Winters: the immovable object of tribes' reserved water meets the irresistible force of states' reserved rights under the equal footing doctrine / Richard Monette -- ; Indian water rights: the era of settlement / Jeanne S. Whiteing -- Post-decree administration of Indian water rights in multijurisdictional settings / Michael C. Nelson -- Results following litigation: the Wind River Tribes/Big Horn River / remarks of Craig Alexander, Gordon Jeff Fassett, and Susan Williams -- The Pyramid Lake Paiute water rights / remarks of Joe Ely -- The boundaries of Winters' when the courts alone are not enough to protect Indian reserved rights / Scott W. Williams -- The Fort Belknap water compact / remarks of John Allen, Woldezion Mesghinna, and Chris Tweeten -- Winters in Salmon country: the Nez Perce Tribe instream flow claims / Mark Solomon -- Off-reservation instream flows: the Nez Perce Settlement / remarks of Michael Bogert, Duane T. Mecham, Rebecca Miles, and Steven Moore -- Litigation versus settlement in non-Indian federal reserved rights / remarks of Susan Cottingham, James DuBois, and John Leshy -- A new deal for a 1933 water right: the Black Canyon of the Gunnison instream flow controversy / Reed D. Benson -- The future of Winters / remarks of Michael Bogert, Barbara Cosens, Philip S. Sam Deloria, John Echohawk, David Getches, John Leshy, and Jeanne S. Whiteing -- Will the Winters commitment to justice endure? it depends on us / remarks of Regis Pecos.
• Sommario/riassunto: In this detailed collection of essays, lawyers, historians, and tribal leaders explore the nuances of the Winters Doctrine.