Frontier Regulars

The United States Army and the Indian, 1866-1891

By: Robert M. Utley

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Paperback | 1 December 1984

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"An excellent piece of scholarship and writing. Lucid, balanced, comprehensive, interpretative, and thoroughly documented, it is a scholar's dream and a layman's delight."--Library Journal In Frontier Regulars Robert M. Utley combines scholarship and drama to produce an impressive history of the final, massive drive by the Regular Army to subdue and control the American Indians and open the West during the twenty-five years following the Civil War. Here are incisive accounts of the campaign directed by Major General Wil-liam Tecumseh Sherman--from the first skirmishes with the Sioux over the Bozeman Trail defenses in 1866 to the final defeat and subjugation of the Northern Plains Indians in 1890. Utley's brilliant descriptions of military ma-neuvers and flaming battles are juxtaposed with a careful analysis of Sherman's army: its mode of operation, equipment, and recruitment; its lifestyle and relations with Congress and civilians. Proud of the United States Army and often sympathetic toward the Indians, Utley presents a balanced overview of the long struggle.He concludes that the frontier army was not "the heroic vanguard of civilization" as sometimes claimed and still less "the barbaric band of butchers depicted in the humanitarian literature of the nineteenth century and the atonement literature of the twentieth. " Rather, it was a group of ordinary (and sometimes extraordinary) men doing the best they could. Other Bison Books by Robert Utley are Billy the Kid: A Short and Violent life, Custer and the Great Controversy: The Origin and Development of a Legend, and Frontiersmen in Blue: The United States Army and the Indian, 1848-1865.

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Enthusiasm for Indian fighting now jars as much as praise of U.S. exploits in Vietnam, but it underpins this account of Western battles after the Civil War. The extermination of the Indians, or at least of their land rights, was, Utley feels, not genocide but "domination." Since it is hard to romanticize surprise massacres of Indian villages (although Utley, a National Parks Service Director, insists there were acts of humane discretion as well), the book is mainly a chronicle of the fighting, together with sketches of men, officers, weaponry, and politics. Utley rolls through the 1866 Fort Kearney battle, Hancock's War, the early Apache fights, Sheridan's winter campaign against Black Kettle, the conquest of the Sioux, the Nez Perce war, Mexican border skirmishes and so forth. The significance of the 1890 Wounded Knee massacre is that it put an end to the Indian search. and-destroy operations and officially dissolved the frontier. An entry in the Wars of the United States series, this will interest students of military logistics and lovers of bloodshed more than historians of human conflict. (Kirkus Reviews)

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Errata	p. ix
The Postwar Army: Command, Staff, and Line	p. 10
The Problem of Doctrine	p. 44
The Army, Congress, and the People	p. 59
Weapons, Uniforms, and Equipment	p. 69
Army Life on the Border	p. 80
Fort Phil Kearny, 1866	p. 93
Hancock's War, 1867	p. 111
The Peace Commission of 1867	p. 130
Operations on the Southern Plains, 1868-69	p. 142
Beyond the Plains, 1866-70	p. 163
Grant's Peace Policy, 1869-74	p. 188
The Red River War, 1874-75	p. 219
Sitting Bull, 1870-76	p. 236
The Conquest of the Sioux, 1876-81	p. 267
Nez Percé Bid for Freedom, 1877	p. 296
Bannock, Paiute, Sheepeater, and Ute, 1878-79	p. 322
Mexican Border Conflicts, 1870-81	p. 344
Geronimo, 1881-86	p. 369
Ghost Dance, 1890-91	p. 397
Bibliography	p. 414
Index	p. 435
Index	p. 437
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