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Born in Michigan in 1857, "Captain Jim" Cook first learned to handle a lasso in Texas shortly after the Civil War. He caught wild cattle with the vaqueros and drove them north to railheads, he fought Comanche raiders and New Mexico badmen, and developed a keen understanding of Indian methods which won for him the respect of cavalry troops assigned to capture Geronimo. Cook probably knew Red Cloud, the Sioux chief, better than any other white man. His graphic descriptions of the "superb but futile" Indian uprising, and of the mixed feelings of the army officers and soldiers assigned to quell it, reflect the genuine character of "Captain Jim" Cook cowboy, rancher, Indian scout, plainsman, and author of Fifty Years on the Old Frontier.