Robert M. Utley

Robert M. Utley is a retired Chief Historian of the National Park Service and has written over fifteen books on a variety of aspects of history of the American West. His writings have received numerous prizes, including the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum’s Wrangler Award, the Western Writers of America Spur Award, the Caughey Book Prize from the Western History Association, and the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize from the Society for Military History. He resides in Georgetown, Texas.

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The Indian Frontier 1846-1890

University of New Mexico Press

First published in 1984, 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.

  • Copyright year: 2003
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High Noon in Lincoln

Violence on the Western Frontier

University of New Mexico Press

"In research, writing, and interpretation, High Noon in Lincoln is a superb book. It is one of the best books (maybe the best) ever written on a violent episode in the West."--Richard Maxwell Brown author of Strain of Violence: Historical Studies of American Violence and Vigilantism

  • Copyright year: 1990
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Notes Illustrating the Military Geography of the United States, 1813–1880

By Raphael P. Thian; Edited by John M. Carroll; Introduction by Robert M. Utley
University of Texas Press

A valuable research tool for military historians, tracing the confusing mutations through which the divisions, departments, and districts of the Army's command had evolved between 1813 and 1880.

  • Copyright year: 1979
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Reshaping Our National Parks and Their Guardians

The Legacy of George B. Hartzog Jr.

University of New Mexico Press
  • Copyright year: 2012
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An Army Doctor on the Western Frontier

Journals and Letters of John Vance Lauderdale, 1864-1890

Edited by Robert M. Utley
University of New Mexico Press

This selection of Lauderdale's writings, edited and annotated by a premier historian of the American West, offers an insightful account of army life that will teach readers much about the settlement and growth of the West in a time of rapid change.

  • Copyright year: 2014
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