The Robert M. Utley Award

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2018     The dead march : a history of the Mexican American War by Peter Guardino
2017     Surviving Wounded Knee : the Lakotas and the politics of memory by David W. Grua.
2016     Masters of empire : Great Lakes Indians and the making of North America by Michael McDonnell
2015     Remembering the Modoc War : redemptive violence and the making of American innocence by Boyd Cothran
2014     A misplaced massacre : struggling over the memory of Sand Creek by Ari Kelman
2013     A wicked war : Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. invasion of Mexico by Amy S. Greenberg
2012     No award given
2011     Hancock's war : conflict on the southern plains by William Chalfant
2010     The American military frontiers : the United States Army in the West, 1783-1900 by Robert Wooster
2009     War of a thousand deserts : Indian raids and the U.S.-Mexican War by Brian DeLay
2008     Gall : Lakota war chief by Robert W. Larson
2007     Violence over the land : Indians and empires in the early American West by Ned Blackhawk
2006     Mickey Free : Apache captive, interpreter, and Indian scout by R. Allen Radbourne
2005     Blue Water Creek and the first Sioux War, 1854-1856 by R. Eli Paul
2004     Morning Star dawn : the Powder River expedition and the Northern Cheyennes, 1876 by Jerome A. Greene
2003     The Black regulars, 1866-1898 by William A. Dobak and Thomas D. Phillips