Utley, Robert M(arshall)

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UTLEY, Robert M(arshall)

UTLEY, Robert M(arshall). American, b. 1929. Genres: History. Career: Regional Historian, Southwest Region, 1957-64; Chief Historian 1964-71; Director, Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation, 1971-73, and Assistant Director, 1973-77, U.S. National Park Service; Deputy Director, Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, 1977-80. Publications: Custer and the Great Controversy: Origin and Development of a Legend, 1962; The Last Days of the Sioux Nation, 1963; (ed.) Battlefield and Classroom: Four Decades with the American Indian, 1867-1904, by Richard Henry Pratt, 1963; Frontiersmen in Blue: The U.S. Army and the Indian, 1848-65, 1967; Frontier Regulars: The U.S. Army and the Indian, 1866-91 (in U.K. as Blue- coats and Redskins), 1973; (ed.) Life in Custer's Cavalry: Diaries and Letters of Albert and Jennie Barnitz 1867-68, 1977; (co-author) American Heritage History of the Indian Wars, 1977; The Indian Frontier of the American West 1846-1891, 1984; High Noon in Lincoln: Violence on the Western Frontier, 1987; Cavalier in Buckskin: George Armstrong Custer and the Western Military Frontier, 1988; Billy the Kid: A Short and Violent Life, 1989; Fort Union and the Santa Fe Trail, 1989; The Lance and the Shield: The Life and Times of Sitting Bull, 1993; A Life Wild and Perilous: Mountain Men and Paths to the Pacific, 1997. Address: 404 Goldridge Dr, Georgetown, TX 78628, U.S.A. Online address: [email protected]