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In 1879 an Indian Agent, a typical do-gooder determined to sow sweetness and light among the “underprivileged,” so exasperated the Utes under his charge that they killed him and his aides, abducted the white women at the agency, and ambushed a troop of cavalry. Consequently the Utes were expelled from their reservation in Colorado. A competent writer could have told the whole story in no more space than De Quincey, for example, needed in Blackwood’s to describe the revolt of the Kalmuck Tartars. Mr. Sprague has inflated it into one of the hundreds of books that drop from the presses each season to prove that one consequence of the general decline in literacy is a flood of flaccid verbosity.

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REVIEWED IN BRIEF

In 1879 an Indian Agent, a typical do-gooder determined to sow sweetness and light among the “underprivileged,” so exasperated the Utes under his charge that they killed him and his aides, abducted the white women at the agency, and ambushed a troop of cavalry. Consequently the Utes were expelled from their reservation in Colorado. A competent writer could have told the whole story in no more space than De Quincey, for example, needed in Blackwood’s to describe the revolt of the Kalmuck Tartars. Mr. Sprague has inflated it into one of the hundreds of books that drop from the presses each season to prove that one consequence of the general decline in literacy is a flood of flaccid verbosity.