Robert M Utley: 14 books
Lone Star Justice
The First Century of the Texas Rangers
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2002
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...
Wanted
The Outlaw Lives of Billy the Kid and Ned Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
The oft-told exploits of Billy the Kid and Ned Kelly survive vividly in the public imaginations of their respective countries, the United States and Australia. But the outlaws’ reputations are so weighted with legend and myth, the truth of their lives has become obscure. In this adventure-filled double...
Lone Star Lawmen : The Second Century of the Texas Rangers
The Second Century of the Texas Rangers
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2007
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 Commanders
Civil War Generals Who Shaped the American West
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Taking a novel approach to the military history of the post–Civil War West, distinguished historian Robert M. Utley examines the careers of seven military leaders who served as major generals for the Union in the Civil War, then as brigadier generals in command of the U.S. Army’s western departments....
by Robert M. Utley
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2003
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...
Frontier Regulars
The United States Army and the Indian, 1866-1891
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
In Frontier Regulars Robert M. Utley combines scholarship and drama to produce an impressive history of the final, massive drive by the Regular Army to subdue and control the American Indians and open the West during the twenty-five years following the Civil War.
Here are incisive accounts...
by Robert M. Utley
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
This “meticulous and finely researched” biography tracks the Apache raider’s life from infamous renegade to permanent prisoner of war (Publishers Weekly).
Notorious for his ferocity in battle and uncanny ability to elude capture, the Apache fighter Geronimo became a legend in his own...
Billy the Kid
A Short and Violent Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
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...
by Robert M. Utley, Wilcomb E. Washburn
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2019
Here, from American Heritage, is the dramatic story of the violent conflicts between Native Americans and white settlers that lasted more than 300 years, the effects of which still resonate today. Acclaimed historians Robert M. Utley and Wilcomb E. Washburn examine both small battles and major wars...
Sitting Bull
The Life and Times of an American Patriot
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
The definitive, award-winning biography of the legendary chief and his dramatic role in the history of westward expansion
Reviled by the United States government as a troublemaker and a coward, revered by his people as a great warrior chief, Sitting Bull has long been one of the most fascinating...
Frontiersmen in Blue
The United States Army and the Indian, 1848-1865
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Frontiersmen in Blue is a comprehensive history of the achievements and failures of the United States Regular and Volunteer Armies that confronted the Indian tribes of the West in the two decades between the Mexican War and the close of the Civil War. Between 1848 and 1865 the men in blue fought nearly...
High Noon in Lincoln
Violence on the Western Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1989
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...
A Life Wild and Perilous
Mountain Men and the Paths to the Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Early in the nineteenth century, the mountain men emerged as a small but distinctive group whose knowledge and experience of the trans-Mississippi West extended the national consciousness to continental dimensions. Though Lewis and Clark blazed a narrow corridor of geographical reality, the West remained...
The Last Days of the Sioux Nation
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2004
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...