High Noon In Lincoln: Violence on the Western Frontier.

The Harmon Memorial Lectures in Military History, 1959-1987.

The Contribution of the Frontier to the American Military Tradition (1988).Cavalier in Buckskin: George Armstrong Custer and the Western Military Frontier.Originally published as The Lance and the Shield: The Life and Times of Sitting Bull. Sitting Bull: The Life and Times of an American Patriot.A Life Wild and Perilous: Mountain Men and the Paths to the Pacific.Originally published by New York: American Heritage Press, Inc., 1977. Houghton Mifflin Company, New York (2002). Oxford University Press, USA (March 22, 2002). Lone Star Justice: The First Century of the Texas Rangers.Oxford University Press, USA (January 30, 2007). Lone Star Lawmen: The Second Century of the Texas Rangers.In 1997 he was awarded the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize for lifetime achievement given by the Society for Military History.

Army, and then joined the National Park Service. Following his graduation, Utley served in the U.S. He then attended Indiana University for graduate school, receiving a Master of Arts in history in 1952. Later, he attended nearby Purdue University, receiving a Bachelor of Science in history. During his childhood, his parents, Don Williams Utley and Valeria Haney, moved him to northwestern Indiana, where he attended high school. Utley was born on Octoin Bauxite, Arkansas. Utley Book Award for the best book published on the military history of the frontier and western North America.

The Western History Association annually gives out the Robert M. This is the most difficult of all military assignments, whether in Africa, Asia, or the American West. The frontier army was a conventional military force trying to control, by conventional military methods, a people that did not behave like conventional enemies and, indeed, quite often were not enemies at all. Much of his writing deals with the United States Army in the West, especially in its confrontations with the Indian tribes. He was a chief historian for the National Park Service. Robert Marshall Utley (Octo – June 7, 2022) was an American author and historian who wrote sixteen books on the history of the American West.

High Noon in Lincoln by Robert M. Utley