Robert Marshall Utley je uznávaný historik, který se zaměřuje na bohatou historii amerického Západu. Jeho rozsáhlá díla detailně zkoumají toto klíčové období americké minulosti. Jeho kolegové ho považují za předního odborníka na historii americké hranice v 19. století, což dokazuje i prestižní ocenění, které nese jeho jméno a uděluje se za nejlepší práce v oblasti vojenské historie Západu.
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.