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 ...
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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.
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Utley, Robert M., University of New Mexico Press, 1985, c1984, 3rd printing, cloth (hard cover), very light foxing/soil o/w vg with vg dj (light foxing to reverse), 325 pp with notes, bibliography & index, B&W photographic & other illus., tall 8vo, "This evenhanded approach to a tragic period of American history..."
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Photos and Maps. Fine in Fine jacket. Superlative history by one of America's premier Western historians. Excellent bibliography. A clean, unmarked and unclipped copy. Octavo.
