Frontiersmen in Blue is a comprehensive history of the achievements and failures of the United States Regular and Volunteer Armies that confronted the Indian tribes of the West in the two decades between the Mexican War and the close of the Civil War. Between 1848 and 1865 the men in blue fought nearly all of the western tribes. Robert Utley describes many of these skirmishes in consummate detail, including descriptions of garrison life that was sometimes agonizingly isolated, sometimes caught in the lightning moments of desperate battle.

Author: Robert M. Utley
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Bison Books
Published: 06/01/1981
Pages: 438
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780803295506

About the Author
Robert M. Utley is a preeminent historian of the West and the author of numerous award-winning books, including The Last Days of the Sioux Nation; Custer and the Great Controversy: The Origin and Development of a Legend (Nebraska, 1998); and Billy the Kid: A Short and Violent Life (Bison Books, 1991); as well as the authoritative Frontier Regulars: The United States Army and the Indian, 1866-1891 (Bison Books, 1984).