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.
The Indian Frontier 1846-1890
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
High Noon in Lincoln
Violence on the Western Frontier
"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
Notes Illustrating the Military Geography of the United States, 1813–1880
- Copyright year: 1979
Reshaping Our National Parks and Their Guardians
The Legacy of George B. Hartzog Jr.
- Copyright year: 2012
An Army Doctor on the Western Frontier
Journals and Letters of John Vance Lauderdale, 1864-1890
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