Contested Plains

Winner: Caroline Bancroft Prize

Winner: Caughey Award

Winner: PEN Center USA West Literary Award in Research Nonfiction

Winner: Francis Parkman Prize

Winner: Ray Allen Billington Prize

Choice Outstanding Title

Deftly retracing a pivotal chapter in one of America’s most dramatic stories, Elliott West chronicles the struggles, triumphs, and defeats of both Indians and whites as they pursued their clashing...