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  | | Lone Star Lawmen(1st Edition) The Second Century of the Texas Rangers by Robert Marshall Utley Hardcover, 416 Pages, Published 2007 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-515444-3, ISBN: 0-19-515444-4 "Hailed as "a rip-snortin', six-guns-blazin' saga of good guys and bad guys who were sometimes one and the same," Robert M. Utley's Lone Star Justice captured the colorful first century of Texas Ranger history. Now, in the eagerly anticipated conclusion, Lone Star Lawmen, Utley once again chronicles the daring exploits of the Rangers, this time as they bring justice to the twentieth-century West. Based on unprecedented access to R ..." |
 | | Indian Wars(1st Edition) by Robert Marshall Utley, Wilcomb E. Washburn Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2002 by Mariner Books ISBN-13: 978-0-618-15464-7, ISBN: 0-618-15464-7 "An absorbing and comprehensive work, INDIAN WARS recounts the violent conflicts between Native Americans and white settlers that lasted more than three hundred years, the effects of which still resonate today. Here, the widely respected historians Robert Utley and Wilcomb Washburn examine both small battles and major wars -- from the Native rebellion of 1492, to Crazy Horse and the Sioux War, to the massacre at Wounded Knee. This volume ..." |
 | | Custer and the Great Controversy(1st Edition) The Origin and Development of a Legend by Robert Marshall Utley, Brian W. Dippie Paperback, 172 Pages, Published 1998 by University Of Nebraska Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8032-9561-2, ISBN: 0-8032-9561-8 "Custer and the Great Controversy was the first book to focus on the origins of what has come to be called the Custer myth. The Battle of the Little Bighorn has always been wrapped in mystery and controversy because none of Custer's men survived to tell what happened, because press accounts circulated much misinformation and editors politicized the event, because popular writers repeated the errors of journalists, because a court of inqu ..." |
 | | Custer and Me(1st Edition) A Historian’s Memoir by Robert Marshall Utley Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2004 by University Of Oklahoma Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8061-3638-7, ISBN: 0-8061-3638-3 "In "Custer and Me," renowned western historian and expert on historic preservation, Robert M. Utley, turns his talents to his own life and career. Through lively personal narrative, Utley offers an insider's view of Park Service workings and problems, both at regional and national levels, during the Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, and Carter administrations. Utley also details the birth of the Western History Association, ear ..." |
 | | A Life Wild and Perilous(1st Edition) Mountain Men and the Paths to the Pacific by Robert Marshall Utley Hardcover, 392 Pages, Published 1997 by Henry Holt & Co ISBN-13: 978-0-8050-3304-5, ISBN: 0-8050-3304-1 "It's true, Robert Utley writes, that mountain men such as "Crazy Bill" Williams and Jeremiah "Liver-Eating" Johnson were an unlearned, unwashed, drunk, and violent bunch who tore a bloody swath across the then-unconquered American West from the 1810s to the 1840s. Yet their travels across deserts and plains and over high mountains yielded a huge body of geographical knowledge that would enable American pioneers to cross the Mississippi ..." |
 | | The American heritage history of the Indian wars by Robert Marshall Utley, Wilcomb E. Washburn Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 1992 by Barnes & Noble Books ISBN-13: 978-1-56619-267-5, ISBN: 1-56619-267-6 "An absorbing and comprehensive work, INDIAN WARS recounts the violent conflicts between Native Americans and white settlers that lasted more than three hundred years, the effects of which still resonate today. Here, the widely respected historians Robert Utley and Wilcomb Washburn examine both small battles and major wars -- from the Native rebellion of 1492, to Crazy Horse and the Sioux War, to the massacre at Wounded Knee. This volume ..." |
 | | The Indian Frontier of the American West, 1846-1890 (Histories of the American Frontier) by Robert Marshall Utley Paperback, 325 Pages, Published 1984 by University Of New Mexico Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8263-0716-3, ISBN: 0-8263-0716-7 "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 tra ..." |
 | | A Clash of Cultures Fort Bowie and the Chiricahua Apaches by Robert Marshall Utley, National Park Service Paperback, 92 Pages, Published 2005 by University Press Of The Pacific ISBN-13: 978-1-4102-2077-6, ISBN: 1-4102-2077-X "On September 8, 1886, soldiers and Indians gathered on the parade ground of a frontier post nestled amid cactus-studded hills. A cordon of blueclad troopers formed around a train of open wagons loaded with Indian families. As a military band drawn up at the base of the flagstaff played "Auld Lang Syne," the procession moved out of the fort and headed north. The post was Fort Bowie, Arizona, for a quarter of a century a lonely bastion i ..." |
 | | The Last Days of the Sioux Nation(2nd Edition) Second Edition (The Lamar Series in Western History) by Robert Marshall Utley Paperback, 370 Pages, Published 2004 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-10316-8, ISBN: 0-300-10316-6 "This fascinating account tells what the Sioux were like when they first came to their reservation and how their reaction to the new system eventually led to the last confrontation between the Army and the Sioux at the Battle of Wounded Knee Creek. A classic work, it is now available with a new preface by the author that discusses his current thoughts about a tragic episode in American history that has raised much controversy through the ..." |
 | | After Lewis and Clark Mountain Men and the Paths to the Pacific by Robert Marshall Utley Paperback, 392 Pages, Published 2004 by Bison Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8032-9564-3, ISBN: 0-8032-9564-2 " In 1807, a year after Lewis and Clark returned from the shores of the Pacific, groups of trappers and hunters began to drift West to tap the rich stocks of beaver and to trade with the Native nations. Colorful and eccentric, bold and adventurous, mountain men such as John Colter, George Drouillard, Hugh Glass, Andrew Henry, and Kit Carson found individual freedom and financial reward in pursuit of pelts. Their knowledge of the country ..." |
 | | The Story of the West(1st Edition) by Kay Donovan, Robert M. Utley, Smithsonian Institution, Ellen Nanney, Robert Marshall Utley Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2003 by Dk ISBN-13: 978-0-7894-9660-7, ISBN: 0-7894-9660-7 "This blend of social, cultural, political, and economic history tells the complete story of the American West -- from prehistoric mammoth hunters to present-day Silicon Valley entrepreneurs. Written in an clear, engaging style by prominent historians in conjunction with the Smithsonian Institution, The Story of the West brings to life the historical figures behind the myths with photos, objects, paintings, and drawings from the Smithson ..." |
 | | The Indian Frontier 1846-1890(Updated) (Histories of the American Frontier Series) by Robert Marshall Utley, Howard R. Lamar, David J. Weber, Martin Ridge, William Cronon Paperback, 345 Pages, Published 2003 by University Of New Mexico Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8263-2998-1, ISBN: 0-8263-2998-5 "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 durin ..." |
 | | Lone Star Justice(Reprint) The First Century of the Texas Rangers by Robert Marshall Utley Paperback, 416 Pages, Published 2003 by Berkley ISBN-13: 978-0-425-19012-8, ISBN: 0-425-19012-9 "From The Lone Ranger to Lonesome Dove, the Texas Rangers have been celebrated in fact and fiction for their daring exploits in bringing justice to the Old West. In Lone Star Justice, best-selling author Robert M. Utley captures the first hundred years of Ranger history, in a narrative packed with adventures worthy of Zane Grey or Larry McMurtry. The Rangers began in the 1820s as loose groups of citizen soldiers, banding together to chas ..." |
 | | Lone Star Justice(1st Edition) The First Century of the Texas Rangers by Robert Marshall Utley Hardcover, 416 Pages, Published 2002 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-512742-3, ISBN: 0-19-512742-0 ""In the annals of law enforcement few groups or agencies have become as encrusted with legend as the Texas Rangers. The always-readable historian Robert Utley has done a thorough job of chipping away these encrustations and revealing the Ranger's rather rag-and-bone, catch-as-catch-can beginning in a time when the Texas frontier was very far from being stable or safe. A fine book."--Larry McMurtry, author of Lonesome Dove From The Lon ..." |
 | | Custer(Updated) Cavalier in Buckskin by Robert Marshall Utley Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2001 by University Of Oklahoma Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8061-3347-8, ISBN: 0-8061-3347-3 "George Armstrong Custer. The name evokes instant recognition among Americans and people around the world. No figure in the history of the American West has more powerfully moved the human imagination. This new, lavishly illustrated book combines over 300 photographs and paintings, many in color, with a revised edition of Robert M. Utley’s classic biography, Cavalier in Buckskin. Drawing on twelve years of additional research on Sitting ..." |
 | | The Lance and the Shield(1st Edition) The Life and Times of Sitting Bull by Robert Marshall Utley Paperback, 413 Pages, Published 1994 by Ballantine Books ISBN-13: 978-0-345-38938-1, ISBN: 0-345-38938-7 ""His narrative is griping....Mr. Utley transforms Sitting Bull, the abstract, romanticized icon and symbol, into a flesh-and-blood person with a down-to-earth story....THE LANCE AND THE SHIELD clears the screen of the exaggerations and fantasies long directed at the name of Sitting Bull."THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWReviled by the United States government as a troublemaker and a coward, revered by his people as a great warrior chief, S ..." |
 | | Fort Larned National Historic Site by Robert Marshall Utley, Ron Foreman Paperback, 16 Pages, Published 1993 by Western National Parks Association ISBN-13: 978-1-877856-15-0, ISBN: 1-877856-15-0 "Troops stationed at this outpost in the heart of the Plains Indian territory protected freight wagons and mail coaches on the Santa Fe Trail from 1858 to 1878. Today Fort Larned National Historic Site, Kansas, is one of the best-restored examples of a frontier military settlement. Contains rare historical photos and illustrations, plus new photos by Fred Hirschmann, J. C. Leacock, Steve Mulligan, and others." |
 | | Billy the Kid(Reprint) A Short and Violent Life by Robert Marshall Utley Paperback, 328 Pages, Published 1991 by Bison Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8032-9558-2, ISBN: 0-8032-9558-8 "Whatever his name or alias at the moment-Henry McCarty, Henry Antrim, Kid Antrim, Billy Bonney-people always called him the Kid. Not until his final month did anyone call him Billy the Kid. Newspapers pictured him as a king of outlaws; and his highly publicized capture, trial, escape, and end fixed his image in the public mind for all time. He was only twenty-one years old when a bullet from Sheriff Pat Garett's six-shooter killed him o ..." |
 | | High Noon in Lincoln(Reprint) Violence on the Western Frontier by Robert Marshall Utley, Jonathan W. Valvano Paperback, 279 Pages, Published 1990 by University Of New Mexico Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8263-1201-3, ISBN: 0-8263-1201-2 "Here is the most detailed and most engagingly narrated history to date of the legendary two-year facedown and shootout in Lincoln. Until now, New Mexico's late nineteenth-century Lincoln County War has served primarily as the backdrop for a succession of mythical renderings of Billy the Kid in American popular culture. "In research, writing, and interpretation, High Noon in Lincoln is a superb book. It is one of the best books (maybe th ..." |
 | | Billy the Kid A Short and Violent Life by Robert Marshall Utley Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 1989 by University Of Nebraska Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8032-4553-2, ISBN: 0-8032-4553-X "Whatever his name or alias at the moment—Henry McCarty, Henry Antrim, Kid Antrim, Billy Bonney—people always called him the Kid. Not until his final month did anyone call him Billy the Kid. Newspapers pictured him as a king of outlaws; and his highly publicized capture, trial, escape, and end fixed his image in the public mind for all time. He was only twenty-one years old when a bullet from Sheriff Pat Garett’s six-shooter killed him o ..." |
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