The book review essay parameters: 1) convey a sense of what each author accomplishes in broadening
our understanding of Native Americans, 2) describe truly new information and interpretations that emerge
from your reading of these books, 3) explain their authors’ methods of writing and argumentation, 4)
comment upon those aspects of the works that you find complicated or poorly developed, and 5) conclude
with reference to the extent to which the books seem to suggest new ways of looking at people and events
that shaped the American West. 6) Chicago Format. Books: Andrew R. Graybill’s The Red and the White:
A Family Saga of the American West (W. W. Norton, 2013) and Frederick E. Hoxie’s This Indian Country:
American Indian Activists and the Place They Made (Penguin, 2012).