Virginia McConnell Simmons

This history of the Utes is warts-and-all but (to this Anglo-American layman) seems eminently fair. And don't be misled by the fact that many of the other histories written by the author might be called "micro-local": The Ute Indians is very professionally done.

I feel that reading this book has corrected a lot of my misimpressions, both the naive ones I had before really reading any histories of the West, and the new ones I developed in the process of that reading.