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Title: Frontier Regulars: The United States Army and the Indian, 1866-1891 by Robert M. Utley ISBN: 0-8032-9551-0 Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr Pub. Date: December, 1984 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (4 reviews)
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.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great resource on the Regular Army and the West
Comment: Frontier Regulars is an entertaining and informative read. Robert Utley has done a fine job of bringing to life the average tempo and quality of the US Army on the frontier.
Utley uses memoirs and Army records as sources for his descriptions of military life. I was especially interested in his detailed accounts of how company commanders, platoon leaders and senior NCOs conducted themselves. There is one account describing how the CDR, 1st SGT and officers would make copies of documents during their daily staff meetings that is quite interesting. Having attended scores of company level meetings it struck me how much things have both stayed the same and how other things have changed.
There is a substantial amount devoted to the low quality of enlisted soldiers and the day-to-day hardships of camp life. Foodstuffs weren't always provided by the Army and isolated units had to scramble to come up with rations for the troops. This lead to moneymaking ventures, small plots of produce and other creative "financing" to supply the soldiers.
Interesting, well written and recommended.
Rating: 5
Summary: Required Reading for Indian Wars Enthusiasts
Comment: Quite simply the definitive work on the frontier Army in the post-Civil War era. Read it in conjunction with Utley's history of the antebellum frontier Army (_Frontiersmen in Blue_), for the most complete and accessible account of the Army's sorry history of entanglements with Native Americans from the post-Mexican war era on.
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Title: Frontiersmen in Blue: The United States Army and the Indian, 1848-1865 by Robert M. Utley ISBN: 0803295502 Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr Pub. Date: 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 ISBN: 0806111135 Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: December, 1999 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Indian Wars by Robert M. Utley, Wilcomb E. Washburn, Robert M Utley, Wilcomb E Washburn ISBN: 0618154647 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 09 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: A Guide to the Indian Wars of the West by John D. McDermott ISBN: 080328246X Publisher: Bison Bks Corp Pub. Date: November, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.31 |
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Title: The Wagon Box Fight: An Episode of Red Cloud's War by Jerry Keenan ISBN: 1882810872 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: February, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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