This book is a joint project of the Utah Division of Indian Affairs and the Utah State Historical Society. It is distributed to the book trade by Utah State Uni

Sondra Jones traces the metamorphosis of the Ute people from a society of small, interrelated bands of mobile hunter-gatherers to sovereign, dependent nations--

The original, unedited version of a Utah classic, with a new foreword by the author's great-grandson, Phillip B. Gottfredson.

Indian tribes involved in the Blackhawk War included the Utes, Uinta and Goshute Indian tribes.