The Indian Frontier 1846-1890 / Edition 1

by Robert M. Utley

Overview

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.

What they said about the first edition:

"[The Indian Frontier of the American West, 1846-1890] provides an excellent synthesis of Indian-white relations in the trans-Mississippi West during the last half-century of the frontier period."—Journal of American History

"The Indian Frontier of the American West combines good writing, solid research, and penetrating interpretations. The result is a fresh and welcome study that departs from the soldier-chases-Indian approach that is all too typical of other books on the topic."—Minnesota History

"[Robert M. Utley] has carefully eschewed sensationalism and glib oversimplification in favor of critical appraisal, and his firm command of some of the best published research of others provides a solid foundation for his basic argument that Indian hostility in the half century following the Mexican War was directed less at the white man per se than at the hated reservation system itself."—Pacific Historical Review

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826329981
Publisher:	University of New Mexico Press
Publication date:	10/30/2003
Series:	Histories of the American Frontier Series
Edition description:	Revised edition
Pages:	345
Sales rank:	704,419
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 9.50(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Preface
List of Illustrations
1. The Indian West at Midcentury
2. Foundations of a New Indian Policy, 1846-1860
3. When the White People Fought Each Other, 1861-1865
4. War and Peace: Indian Relations in Transition, 1865-1869
5. Grant’s Peace Policy, 1869-1876
6. Wars of the Peace Policy, 1869-1886
7. The Vision of the Reformers, 1865-1890
8. The Reservation, 1880-1890
9. The Passing of the Frontier, 1890
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

"Utley puts events in context and this context will help readers understand the conflicts that stretched from the Civil War to the settling of the West. "The Indian Frontier" will give any reader a good overview of the happenings in the West between 1846-1890."

"Masterfully written. . . . A superbly constructed book. . . . This book remains one of the best written narratives of its genre."

"This book is an excellent synthesis of Indian-white relations in the trans-Mississippi West during the last half-century of the frontier period, a welcome study that departs from the soldier-chases-Indian approach that is all too typical of other books on the topic."

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