Robert Marshall Utley est un historien éminent dont les écrits éclairent la riche histoire de l'Ouest américain. Son œuvre considérable explore en profondeur cette ère charnière du passé américain. Ses pairs reconnaissent Utley comme l'expert par excellence de la frontière américaine du XIXe siècle, un témoignage de ses profondes contributions, souligné par un prix prestigieux portant son nom, décerné pour l'excellence dans l'histoire militaire de la frontière.
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.