A dual portrait of American outlaw Billy the Kid and his Australian counterpart, Ned Kelly, separates myth from fact while discussing their young lives, personal codes, roles in national uprisings, early executions and enduring legacies. Illustrations.

Details the U.S. Army's campaign in the years following the Civil War to contain the American Indian and promote Western expansion.

Here is the most detailed and most engaging narrated history to date of the legendary two-year facedown and shootout in Lincoln. Until now, New Mexico's late nineteenth-century Lincoln County War has served primarily as the backdrop for a succession of mythical renderings of Billy the Kid in American popular culture. However, as Robert Utley so convincingly demonstrates, this "war without heroes," the source of scores of books and movies, would have...

Examines why, despite Native American helpfulness toward European settlers in the New World, conflicts between white men & red erupted almost immediately, & spread to all parts of America. Here are the implacable foes, the devastation they wrought, the land for which they fought, and the causes and effects of these wars.

A comprehensive history of the achievements and failures of the U.S. Regular and Volunteer Armies in the two decades between the Mexican and Civil Wars, and an assessment of how the U.S. military policy and its implementation set the ground for the next half-century of westward expansion.