Robert M. Utley, a leading scholar of the frontier army and Indian-white relations in the West, will come to Yale during the 2001-02 academic year as the first Frederick W. and Carrie S. Beinecke Senior Research Fellow in Western and Frontier History.
As such, he will join in the affairs and activities of the Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders, and forward his research and writing using the Collection of Western Americana in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Utley played a major role in identifying and preserving America's historic places. He was a founding member and past president of the Western History Association, and served for 25 years in various capacities with the National Park Service. He was deputy executive director of the President's Advisory Council on Historic Preservation when he retired in 1980.
Utley is the author of 15 books, including the award-winning "The Lance and the Shield," a 1993 biography of Sitting Bull. He has twice won the Wrangler Award of the National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center and was recognized by both the Society for Military History and the Western Writers of America for his lifetime achievement.
The historian's association with Yale dates back to 1963, when the Yale University Press published his first book, "The Last Days of the Sioux Nation." The next year, the Yale Press released Utley's edition of Richard Henry Pratt's previously unpublished memoir, "Battlefield and Classroom: Four Decades with the American Indian." As a member of the editorial board of the Yale Western Americana Series since 1966, Utley edited and introduced "Life in Custer's Cavalry: Diaries and Letters of Albert and Jennie Barnitz, 1867-1868," published in 1977.
"Few scholars have done more in the last quarter century to explore and publish from our collections than Bob Utley," says George Miles, the William Robertson Coe Curator of Western Americana at the Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscript Library.
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