Robert Marshall Utley je uznávaný historik, ktorý sa zameriava na bohatú históriu amerického Západu. Jeho rozsiahle diela detailne skúmajú toto kľúčové obdobie americkej minulosti. Jeho kolegovia ho považujú za popredného odborníka na históriu americkej hranice v 19. storočí, čo dokazuje aj prestížne ocenenie, ktoré nesie jeho meno a udeľuje sa za najlepšie práce v oblasti vojenskej histórie Západu.
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.