Robert Marshall Utley ist ein herausragender Historiker, dessen Werke die reiche Geschichte des amerikanischen Westens beleuchten. Sein umfangreiches Schaffen befasst sich eingehend mit dieser entscheidenden Ära der amerikanischen Vergangenheit. Von seinen Kollegen wird Utley als führender Experte für die amerikanische Frontier im 19. Jahrhundert geschätzt, was sich auch in einer renommierten Auszeichnung widerspiegelt, die seinen Namen trägt und für herausragende Arbeiten zur Militärgeschichte der Frontier verliehen wird.
This book answers the question: What happened after the landing of the Mayflower that caused the conflicts between the white man and the red man, which spread across the continent and increased in savagery?
An offficial history and guide to the Battle of the Little Bighorn in Southeastern Montana, where Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer and his 7th Cavalry were defeated by Teton Sioux and Northern Cheyenne Indians.
The dramatic events of the final half-century of conflict between Indians and whites in the American West are presented here as a history of two peoples seemingly destined never to understand each other. Utley interprets this conflict from a dual perspective: re-creating events from the Indian viewpoint while also providing an objective appraisal of why the nineteenth-century white man acted as he did. This even-handed approach to a tragic period of American history results in a memorable study of impressive scope and penetrating insight.