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Taking a novel approach to the military history of the post-Civil War West, distinguished historian Robert M. Utley examines the careers of seven military leaders who served as major generals for the Union in the Civil War, then as brigadier generals in command of the U.S. Army's western departments. By examining both periods in their careers, Utley makes a unique contribution in delineating these commanders' strengths and weaknesses. While ...

The definitive, award-winning biography of the legendary chief and his dramatic role in the history of westward expansion Reviled by the United States government as a troublemaker and a coward, revered by his people as a great warrior chief, Sitting Bull has long been one of the most fascinating and misunderstood figures in American history. Distinguished historian Robert M. Utley has forged a compelling portrait of Sitting Bull, presenting th...

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In Custer and Me, renowned western historian and expert on historic preservation, Robert M. Utley, turns his talents to his own life and career. Through lively personal narrative, Utley offers an insider's view of Park Service workings and problems, both at regional and national levels, during the Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, and Carter administrations. Utley also details the birth of the Western History Association, early nation...

An absorbing and comprehensive work, INDIAN WARS recounts the violent conflicts between Native Americans and white settlers that lasted more than three hundred years, the effects of which still resonate today. Here, the widely respected historians Robert Utley and Wilcomb Washburn examine both small battles and major wars -- from the Native rebellion of 1492, to Crazy Horse and the Sioux War, to the massacre at Wounded Knee. This volume contai...

The Last Sovereigns is the story of how Sitting Bull resisted the white man’s ways as a last best hope for the survival of an Indigenous way of life—a nomadic life based on the buffalo—that was sacred to him and to his people.

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Excerpt from Fort Davis National Historic Site, TexasSoon after the return of the hays-highsmith Expedition, Maj. Gen. William J. Worth, commanding the 8th Military Department (texas), ordered two engineer officers, Lts. William H. C. Whiting and William F. Smith, to extend the exploration of the Texas Rangers westward to El Paso del N orte. Escorted by nine Texas frontiersmen and guided by Richard A. Howard, the lieutenants left San Antonio o...

Excerpt from Fort Davis National Historic Site, TexasSoon after the return of the hays-highsmith Expedition, Maj. Gen. William J. Worth, commanding the 8th Military Department (texas), ordered two engineer officers, Lts. William H. C. Whiting and William F. Smith, to extend the exploration of the Texas Rangers westward to El Paso del N orte. Escorted by nine Texas frontiersmen and guided by Richard A. Howard, the lieutenants left San Antonio o...

Excerpt from Custer Battlefield National Monument, MontanaThis was Custer's Last Stand - the most spectacular triumph of the American Indian in his four-century struggle against the relentlessly advancing European civilization that finally crushed him. It forms a chapter of American history that has inspired intense study and provoked intense controversy, that has been chronicled endlessly in prose and verse and enacted time and again on motio...

Excerpt from A Clash of Cultures: Fort Bowie and Chiricahua ApachesAs part of a National Park Service program to introduce the metric system to Ameri cans, all measurements ia this book are expressed in metric units only. At the back of the book are explanations to help you convert metric figures to customary measurements.The camera wasn't fast enough or the boys weren't patient enough when the photographer captured these Chiricahuas playing a...

Excerpt from Custer Battlefield: A History and Guide to the Battle of the Little BighornLater, in the Vietnam years, Custer became a different kind of symbol. For more than'a decade he personified all that was evil and brutal in America's historic treatment of the Indians and stood as a constant reminder of a deeply troubling guilt complex of the American people. Custer died for your sins proclaimed bumper stickers and the title of a best-sell...

Excerpt from Fort Union National Monument, New MexicoThe Pike journals, published in 1810, gave Americans their first glimpse of the people and way of life behind the wall of secrecy Spain had erected on the frontiers of New Mexico. Missourians were quick to detect commercial opportunities in overland trade with Spanish settlers on the Rio Grande. All goods not produced locally in New Mexico had to be hauled from Vera Cruz, Mexico, across mile...

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