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The Last War Trail: The Utes & the Settlement of Colorado by Robert Emmitt Saponise Cuch, Chief of the White River Utes, said to Robert Emmitt in 1948, "I am an old man now, and I am the only one left who remembers this. I have known that someone would come to tell this story; now you will write it out, as I have told it to you." Drawing upon historical documents, transcripts, and letters as well as interviews with Northern Ute elders, Emmitt describes the tragedy of United States Indian Agent Nathan Meeker's plan to 'civilise' the Utes, and the resulting military intervention in which fifty Ute warriors held off the US cavalry and killed Meeker, Major Thomas Thornburgh, and others. Ute warriors sought only to defend their families and their way of life, but the price for that defence was forced removal from Colorado and the loss of over twelve million acres. Written with the care and precision of a finely crafted novel, "The Last War Trail" was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize when it was first published in 1954.  Paperback from University Press of Colorado

The Utes: A Forgotten People by Wilson Rockwell Paperback from Western Reflections Publishing Co.

The Utes Must Go!: American Expansion and the Removal of a People by Peter Decker Paperback from Fulcrum Publishing

Bear Dancer: The Story of a Ute Girl by Thelma Hatch Wyss Hardcover from Margaret K. McElderry

Ute Indian Arts and Culture: From Prehistory to the New Millenium Paperback from Taylor Museum of the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center

The Dispossessed: Cultural Genocide of the Mixed-Blood Utes : An Advocate's Chronicle by Parker M. Nielson Hardcover from University of Oklahoma Press

Utes: The Mountain People by Jan Pettit Paperback from Johnson Books

Ute Mountain Utes by Robert W. Delaney Hardcover from Univ of New Mexico Pr

Chipeta: Ute Peacemaker (Now You Know Bios) by Cynthia S. Becker Paperback from Filter Press Delivery sometimes delayed

 
 
 

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