The Indian Frontier of the American West 1846-1890 , Author is Utley, Robert M.
ISBN: 0826307159
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1984. Hardcover, Fine text in a Very Good dustjacket with edgewear.
First published in 1929, Robert Utley's The Indian Frontier of the American West 1846-1890, is considered a classic for both students and scholars. For this revision, Utley includes scholarship and research that has become available in recent years.
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. 325 pp.
