Robert Marshall Utley è uno storico di spicco le cui opere illuminano la ricca storia del West americano. La sua vasta produzione letteraria approfondisce questa era cruciale del passato americano. I suoi colleghi lodano Utley come il massimo esperto della frontiera americana del XIX secolo, un riconoscimento del suo profondo contributo testimoniato da un prestigioso premio a lui intitolato, assegnato per eccellenze nella storia militare della frontiera.
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.