Bound to Have Blood

“[Bound to Have Blood] offers a lot of colorful history and some great old photographs.”—Omaha World-Herald

"Reilly fleshes out the broad strokes of interaction between natives and settlers in the middle of North America from the 1860s to the 1890s by drawing on the articles and opinions in the local newspapers where the wars were being fought."—Reference & Research Book News

"In Bound to Have Blood, Reilly provides a good overview of the press coverage of the Plains Indian Wars and thus helps readers understand how this coverage influenced American reactions to the Indians. . . . Reilly's study provides an excellent account of how the local newspapers covered these events and shows that reactions were not always the same because of differences in local opinions and circumstances."—Carol Sue Humphrey, Historian

"Bound to Have Blood should find a place in classrooms where instructors wish to offer their students access to the vitriolic rhetoric of Indian hating that appears in nineteenth- century frontier newspapers and the political jockeying that lay behind it."—Phillip H. Round, SAIL

"This is a welcome addition to Indian studies that documents an important feature of the history of the American West."—James W. Parins, American Indian Culture and Research Journal