Crook, GEORGE

Crook, GEORGE, American soldier, born in Ohio in 1828, graduated at West Point in 1852, served in California till 1861, and was actively engaged throughout the civil war, in which he rose to the rank of major-general. He served against the Indians in Idaho (1866-72), in Arizona (1872-75), and crushed the great rising in Wyoming and Montana in 1875-77. In 1882 he returned to Arizona, where he controlled the Indians on the southern frontier, putting an end to the truck system. He died 21st March 1890.