Robert M. Utley is a preeminent historian of the West and
the author of numerous award-winning books, including The Last Days
of the Sioux Nation; Frontiersmen in Blue: The United States Army
and the Indian, 1848–1865 (Nebraska, 1981); Custer and the Great
Controversy: The Origin and Development of a Legend (Nebraska,
1998); and Billy the Kid: A Short and Violent Life (Bison Books,
1991).
“An excellent piece of scholarship and writing. Lucid, balanced,
comprehensive, interpretative, and thoroughly documented, it is a
scholar’s dream and a layman’s delight.”-Library Journal
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