John Gregory Bourke

John Gregory Bourke (1846–1896) was an American army officer and ethnologist. Born in Philadelphia, he enlisted at sixteen in the Civil War and received the Medal of Honor for gallantry at Stones River, then went to West Point and spent most of his career as a cavalry officer and aide to General George Crook in the campaigns against the Apache and the Sioux. He used the opportunity to record the customs of the peoples he fought and negotiated with, publishing The Snake-Dance of the Moquis of Arizona (1884), The Medicine-Men of the Apache (1892), and the memoir On the Border with Crook (1891). He died in Philadelphia at forty-nine.