Robert M. Utley Prize Winners

The Western History Association announces the Utley Book Award to be given annually for the best book published on the military history of the frontie ...more

Winners

	The Apache Diaspora: Four Centuries of Displacement and Survival by Paul Conrad 4.14 avg rating — 28 ratings Robert M. Utley Prize (2022)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America by Heather Cox Richardson 4.31 avg rating — 3,348 ratings Robert M. Utley Prize (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power (The Lamar Series in Western History) by Pekka Hämäläinen 4.26 avg rating — 846 ratings Robert M. Utley Prize (2020)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Bad Peace and a Good War: Spain and the Mescalero Apache Uprising of 1795–1799 by Mark Santiago 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings Robert M. Utley Prize (2019)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dead March: A History of the Mexican-American War by Peter Guardino really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 133 ratings Robert M. Utley Prize (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Surviving Wounded Knee: The Lakotas and the Politics of Memory by David W. Grua 3.91 avg rating — 23 ratings Robert M. Utley Prize (2017)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Masters of Empire: Great Lakes Indians and the Making of America by Michael A. McDonnell 3.90 avg rating — 193 ratings Robert M. Utley Prize (2016)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Remembering the Modoc War: Redemptive Violence and the Making of American Innocence by Boyd Cothran 4.05 avg rating — 20 ratings Robert M. Utley Prize (2015)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling over the Memory of Sand Creek by Ari Kelman (Goodreads Author) 4.20 avg rating — 348 ratings Robert M. Utley Prize (2014)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico by Amy S. Greenberg 3.95 avg rating — 1,454 ratings Robert M. Utley Prize (2013)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hancock's War: Conflict on the Southern Plains (Volume 28) (Frontier Military Series) by William Y. Chalfant 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings Robert M. Utley Prize (2011)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The American Military Frontiers: The United States Army in the West, 1783-1900 (Histories of the American Frontier Series) by Robert Wooster 3.62 avg rating — 21 ratings Robert M. Utley Prize (2010)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican War (The Lamar Series in Western History) by Brian DeLay 4.16 avg rating — 211 ratings Robert M. Utley Prize (2009)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gall: Lakota War Chief by Robert W. Larson 3.82 avg rating — 45 ratings Robert M. Utley Prize (2008)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West by Ned Blackhawk really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 316 ratings Robert M. Utley Prize (2007)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mickey Free: Apache Captive, Interpreter, and Indian Scout by Allan Radbourne it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings Robert M. Utley Prize (2006)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blue Water Creek and the First Sioux War, 1854–1856 (Volume 6) (Campaigns and Commanders Series) by R. Eli Paul 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings Robert M. Utley Prize (2005)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Morning Star Dawn: The Powder River Expedition and the Northern Cheyennes, 1876 (Campaigns and Commanders Series, Volume 2) by Jerome A. Greene 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings Robert M. Utley Prize (2004)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Black Regulars, 1866–1898 by William A. Dobak 3.38 avg rating — 8 ratings Robert M. Utley Prize (2003)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars