Robert M. Utley

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Utley at the 2007 Texas Book Festival.

Robert Marshall Utley is an author and historian who has written sixteen books on the history of the American West, including The Lance and the Shield: The Life of Sitting Bull. He was a former chief historian of the National Park Service. Fellow historians commend Utley as the finest historian of the American frontier in the 19th century.

The Western History Association annually gives out the Robert M. Utley Book Award for the best book published on the military history of the frontier and western North America (including Mexico and Canada) from prehistory through the twentieth century.

Utley lives in Georgetown, Texas, with his wife Melody Webb, also a historian.

[edit] Selected Bibliography

Lone Star Lawmen: The Second Century of the Texas Rangers. Oxford University Press, USA (January 30, 2007).
Lone Star Justice: The First Century of the Texas Rangers. Oxford University Press, USA (March 22, 2002).
A Life Wild and Perilous: Mountain Men and the Paths to the Pacific. Henry Holt & Company (1997).
The Lance and the Shield: The Life of Sitting Bull. Henry Holt & Company (1993).
Billy the Kid: A Short and Violent Life. University of Nebraska Press (1989).
Cavalier in Buckskin: George Armstrong Custer and the Western Military Frontier. University of Oklahoma Press (1988).
High Noon In Lincoln: Violence on the Western Frontier. University of New Mexico Press (1987).
The Indian Frontier of the American West, 1846-1890. University of New Mexico Press (1983).
Clash of Cultures: Fort Bowie and the Chiricahua Apaches. National Park Service Washington DC (1977).
Frontier Regulars; the United States Army and the Indian, 1866-1891. Macmillan, New York (1973).
Frontiersmen in Blue; the United States Army and the Indian, 1848-1865. Macmillan, New York (1967).
The Last Days of the Sioux Nation. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT (1963).