Robert Marshall Utley es un destacado historiador cuyas obras iluminan la rica historia del Oeste americano. Su extensa producción literaria profundiza en esta era crucial del pasado de Estados Unidos. Sus colegas elogian a Utley como el principal experto en la frontera estadounidense del siglo XIX, un reconocimiento a sus profundas contribuciones, evidenciado por un prestigioso premio que lleva su nombre y se otorga a las mejores obras de historia militar de la frontera.
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?
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.