The Indian Frontier 1846-1890

by Utley, Robert M.

• ISBN13: 9780826329981
• ISBN10: 0826329985
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-09-01
• Publisher: Univ of New Mexico Pr

Summary

First published in 1984, Robert Utley's The Indian Frontier of the American West, 1846-1890, is considered a classic for both students and scholars. For this revision, Utley includes scholarship and research that has become available in recent years.What they said about the first edition:"[The Indian Frontier of the American West, 1846-1890]provides an excellent synthesis of Indian-white relations in the trans-Mississippi West during the last half-century of the frontier period."--Journal of American History"The Indian Frontier of the American Westcombines good writing, solid research, and penetrating interpretations. The result is a fresh and welcome study that departs from the soldier-chases-Indian approach that is all too typical of other books on the topic."--Minnesota History"[Robert M. Utley] has carefully eschewed sensationalism and glib oversimplification in favor of critical appraisal, and his firm command of some of the best published research of others provides a solid foundation for his basic argument that Indian hostility in the half century following the Mexican War was directed less at the white man per se than at the hated reservation system itself."--Pacific Historical ReviewChoice MagazineOutstanding Selection

Table of Contents

Foreword	xiii
Preface	xv
1. The Indian West at Midcentury	1	(26)
2. Foundations of a New Indian Policy, 1846-1860	27	(38)
3. When the White People Fought Each Other, 1861-1865	65	(134)
4. War and Peace: Indian Relations in Transition, 1865-1869	199
5. Grant's Peace Policy, 1869-1876	127	(28)
6. Wars of the Peace Policy, 1869-1886	155	(42)
7. The Vision of the Reformers, 1865-1890	197	(22)
8. The Reservation, 1880-1890	219	(24)
9. The Passing of the Frontier, 1890	243	(20)
Notes	263	(24)
Historiography & Bibliography	287	(16)
Index	303