'Indian Wars is a masterwork of synthesis and clarity. Only when one contemplates three hundred years of Indian-white warfare can one appreciate the task of sorting out the significant events and the knowledge and discipline inherent in presenting them... The choice of authors is a happy one. For while Washburn and Utley are obviously sympathetic with the Indian, their narratives are free of the elegiac tone, the ideology and cant which were de rigueur in the writings of the 1960's and early '70's...' -- The American West