Robert Marshall Utley is een vooraanstaand historicus wiens geschriften de rijke geschiedenis van het Amerikaanse Westen belichten. Zijn omvangrijke oeuvre duikt diep in dit cruciale tijdperk van het Amerikaanse verleden. Collega-historici prijzen Utley als de ultieme expert van de 19e-eeuwse Amerikaanse frontier, wat wordt onderstreept door een prestigieuze prijs die zijn naam draagt en wordt toegekend voor uitmuntende werken over militaire geschiedenis van de frontier.
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.