UTLEY : Frontiersmen in blue (fülszöveg)
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.
In these years, as restless and ambitious easterners set out to explore and settle America's vast new western domain, the Frontiersmen in Blue planted the United States flag on the Great Plains, in Texas, in the Rockies, in the Southwest, in the Great Basin, and on the Pacific Slope. It was their job to protect the new settlements, police the travel routes, and carry out an ambiguous federal military policy toward a native Indian population that defied any dependable classification as friend or foe. As often as not, they were foes.
Between 1848 and 1865 the men in blue fought—sometimes decisively, more often inconclusively—with nearly all the western tribes on fields with names like Blue Water, Rush Spring, Rio Gila, Apache Pass, Crooked Creek, Four Lakes, Spokane Plain, and infamous Sand Creek. Mr. Utley describes many of these skirmishes in consummate detail, injecting an extra dimension of reality with detailed descriptions of garrison life, from the agonizingly long stretches of total isolation to the lightning moments of high-pitched action drama.
In the course of Indian fighting, the Frontiersmen in Blue set up regional defense systems that endured without fundamental change until the Indian problem no longer required military involvement. Their signal achievements in these two decades, definitively chronicled in this volume, marked an important chapter in the history of westward expansion—a chapter that is fundamental to an understanding of the more celebrated role of the military in the final conquest of the West that followed the Civil War. In a forthcoming volume Mr. Utley will continue the history of the United States Army and the Indians through the years 1866 to 1890.
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