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Title: Frontier Regulars: The United States Army and the Indian, 1866-1891 by Robert Marshall Utley ISBN: 0-02-621250-1 Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company Pub. Date: February, 1974 Format: Hardcover List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.83 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An indispensable look at the frontier army
Comment: A great deal has been written about the United States Army during the Civil War. But tales of the postwar army can be just as thrilling as stories from the war, though this portion of military history is, sadly, often overlooked. Robert Utley attempts to correct this oversight in this excellent book, which deals with the nature, structure, and activity of the portion of the army engaged on the frontier from immediately after the Civil War until Wounded Knee. Arranged in an order that is easy to follow and is logical if not always strictly chronological, each major military operation against the Native Americans is handled with skill and sufficient detail. The result is a fascinating look at the army as a whole.
The main value of this book lies in the fact that it provides an outstanding overview of military operations as a whole (as opposed to books that treat just one battle or campaign). The work fills in many holes that will undoubtedly exist for anyone who has studied a part of the Indian Wars, and who would like to have a more general overview available to them. Anyone who has studied the Little Bighorn, for example, will find in this book a wealth of information that will explain in great detail many of the factors that led up to that action and also many of its ramifications. This book is essential to any study of Western history, especially military history.
Rating: 5
Summary: The United States Army and the Indian, 1866-1891
Comment: Hefty 462 pages (incl. bibliography and index), by Robert M. Utley. This is part of the Wars of the United States Series.
The Frontier Regulars saw themselves as the advance guard of cililization, sweeping aside the savage to make way for the stockman, the miner, the farmer and the merchant.
This is a well-researched, and very well written volume, complete with footnotes, bibliography, and index.
Rating: 5
Summary: Utley's Knows the Frontier Life
Comment: This is Utley's second volume on Frontier Regulars as it documents the modest army that dealt with the plains wars, Apache and the remoteness and often boredom of army life. The book starts with the post Civil war era and Red Cloud's war over the Bozeman Trail to the Fetterman's massacre in 1866 and stops shortly after Wounded Knee when most of the tribes are all virtually on a reservation with their lives forever changed. It's not like the movies with daily Indian attacks since the Indians rarely attacked in mass and they were difficult to find or corral particularly in the summer. Anyone reading this book will understand how imperative it was for Custer to attack when he discovered his quarry since they could evaporate on the plains. Besides Indians, the commanders had to fight poor rations, incompetent or dishonest Indian agents, lack of social life (particularly few women), desertions and alcohol. To make matters worse, limited promotion. John Ford captures it pretty well in his movie "Tie a Yellow Ribbon with the running line "keep it up and you'll get promoted in seven to 10 years". Columns of fours though rarely occurred unless you were in dress parade.
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Title: Frontiersmen in Blue: The United States Army and the Indian, 1848-1865 by Robert M. Utley ISBN: 0803295502 Publisher: University of Nebraska Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1981 List Price(USD): $16.91 |
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Title: Forty Miles a Day on Beans and Hay: The Enlisted Soldier Fighting the Indian Wars by Don, Jr Rickey, Don Jr. Rickey ISBN: 0806111135 Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 1999 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Indian Wars by Robert M. Utley, Wilcomb E. Washburn, Wilcomb E Washburn, Robert M Utley ISBN: 0618154647 Publisher: Mariner Books Pub. Date: 09 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The Wagon Box Fight: An Episode of Red Cloud's War by Jerry Keenan ISBN: 1882810872 Publisher: Da Capo Press Pub. Date: February, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: A Guide to the Indian Wars of the West (Bison Book) by John D. McDermott ISBN: 080328246X Publisher: University of Nebraska Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.31 |
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