C. M. MAYO
Author of The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire, etc.

C.M. Mayo < World Waiting for a Dream <

 
BIBLIOGRAPHY
FOR
"JOHN BIGELOW, JR.:
Officer with the Tenth Cavalry,
Military Intellectual, and
Nexus Between West and East"


A handout from C.M. Mayo's presentation
at the Center for Big Bend Studies annual conference
Sul Ross State University, November 10, 2017

The working paper will be posted shortly,
and much of this material will appear in
my book in-progress,
World Waiting for a Dream: A Turn in Far West Texas

BOOKS BY JOHN BIGELOW, JR.

Bigelow, John, Jr. Mars-la-Tour and Gravelotte. Government Printing Office, 1884.

- The Principles of Strategy: Illustrated Mainly from American Campaigns, Second edition, J.B. Lippincott Co., 1894.

- The Campaign of Chancellorsville: A Strategic and Tactical Study. Yale University Press, 1910

- Modern Language Notes: French. A.D. MacLachlan, 1906.

- On the Bloody Trail of Geronimo. Forward, Introduction, and Notes by Arthur Woodard. Westernlore Press, 1968.

- Reminiscences of the Santiago Campaign. Harper & Brothers, 1899

- American Policy: The Western Hemisphere in its Relations to the Eastern. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1914

- Breeches of Anglo-American Treaties: A Study in History and Diplomacy. Sturgis & Walton, 1917

- World Peace: How War Cannot Be Abolished; How It May Be Abolished. Mitchell Kennerly, 1917

- Garrison Tangles of the Friendless Tenth: The Journal of First Lieutenant John Bigelow, Jr., Fort Davis, Texas. Edited with an Introduction by Douglas C. McChristian. J.M. Carroll & Co., 1985


ARTICLES BY JOHN BIGELOW, JR.


"The Sabre and Bayonet Question." Journal of the Military Service Institution of the United States (January-March, 1882): pp. 65-96.

"The Tenth Regiment of Cavalry." The Army of the United States Historical Sketches of Staff and Line with Portraits of Generals-in-Chief. Edited by Theo. F. Rodenbough Bvt Brigadier General, USA, and William L. Haskin Major, First Artillery. Maynard & Merril & Co., 1896. [Orginally published in Journal of the Miltary Service Institution 13 (January 1892): pp. 215-24.]


ARCHIVES

United States Military Academy Library. John Bigelow, Jr. Papers. (diary)

Library of Congress. Manuscript Division. The Colonel John Bigelow Papers.

Union College, Schaffer Library, John Bigelow Collection (letters)

BIOGRAPHIES OF JOHN BIGELOW, JR.

Hansen, Howard K. Jr. "The Remarkable John Bigelow, Jr.: An Examination of Professionalism in the United States Army, 1877-91" Master's Thesis, Old Dominion University, 1986.

Kinevan, Marcos. Frontier Cavalryman: Lieutenant John Bigelow with the Buffalo Soldiers in Texas. Texas Western Press, 1998.

New York Times. "John Bigelow, 81, Soldier, Is Dead," March 1, 1939

 

SELECTED WORKS BY JOHN BIGELOW, SR.

Bigelow, John. Retrospections of an Active Life. 5 vols. Baker & Taylor Co., vols. 1-3, 1909, and Doubleday, Page & Co, vols. 4-5, edited by John Bigelow, Jr., 1913.

- Jamaica in 1850 or, The Effects of Sixteen Years of Freedom on a Slave Colony. G.P. Putnam, 1851. Reprinted with an introduction by Robert J. Scholnick, University of Illinois Press, 2006.


SELECTED WORKS EDITED BY JOHN BIGELOW

Franklin, Benjamin. Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. Edited with Noted and Introduction by John Bigelow, Lippincott & Co, 1868

Gregg, Josiah, Commerce of the Prairies or, The Journal of a Santa Fe Trader. 2 vols. H. Langely, 1844. (Edited from Gregg's account by John Bigelow)


BIOGRAPHY OF JOHN BIGELOW

Clapp, Margaret. Forgotten First Citizen: John Bigelow. Little, Brown & Co., 1947.

SELECTED WORKS BY POULTNEY BIGELOW

Bigelow, Poultney. Seventy Summers. 2 vols. Longman's, Green & Co., 1925.

- Prussian Memories: 1864-1914. G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1915.


OTHER WORKS OF NOTE

Barnett, Louise. Ungentlemany Acts: The Army's Notorious Incest Trial. Hill and Wang, 2000.

Flipper, Henry Ossian. The Colored Cadet at West Point: Autobiography of Lieut, Henry Ossian Flipper, U.S.A., First Graduate of Color from the U.S. Military Academy. H. Lee & Co., 1878

White, G. Edward. The Eastern Establishment and the Western Experience: The West of Frederic Remington, Theodore Roosevelt, and Owen Wister. Yale University Press, 1968.

See also the blog posts, Notes on John Bigelow, Jr. and Further Notes on John Bigelow, Jr..