Category: History: U.S.: 19th Century

Copyright/published Year: 1984 by Bison Books Univ of

ISBN: 0803295510

Binding: trade pap

Description: In Frontier Regulars Robert M. Utley combines scholarship ì and drama to produce an impressive history of the final, massive ì drive by the Regular Army to subdue and control the American ì Indians and open the West during the twenty-five years following ì the Civil War.

Here are incisive accounts of the campaign directed by Major ì General William Tecumseh Sherman-from the first skirmishes with ì the Sioux over the Bozeman Trail defenses in 1866 to the final ì defeat and subjugation of the Northern Plains Indians in 1890. ì Utley's brilliant descriptions of military maneuvers and flaming ì battles are juxtaposed with a careful analysis of Sherman's army: ì its mode of operation, equipment, and recruitment; its lifestyle ì and relations with Congress and civilians.

Proud of the United States Army and often sympathetic toward ì the Indians, Utley presents a balanced overview of the long ì struggle. He concludes that the frontier army was not "the heroic ì vanguard of civilization" as sometimes claimed and still less ì "the barbaric band of butchers depicted in the humanitarian ì literature of the nineteenth century and the atonement literature ì of the twentieth." Rather, it was a group of ordinary (and ì sometimes extraordinary) men doing the best they could.

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This is a used book in Very good condition.

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Minimal shelf wears to covers. No crease on spine. Clean, unmarked copy. No remainder markings