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The Undiscovered Country: Triumph, Tragedy, and the Shaping of the American West Release date August 5, 2025
"A timely piece that is hard to put down. Hutton's extraordinarily well-researched and in-depth perspective of a period in American history that has captured imaginations and proved eternally fascinating has something for everyone. For experts, lay historians, and casual readers alike." -- Library Journal
"The Undiscovered Country is one of those books that plunks you down and holds you in place for days. It's the sort of sweeping, multi-layered, character-driven narrative I fell in love with as a young reader and have been pining for ever since. Thank you Paul Hutton for not just a history lesson, but a lesson in writing history." -- Stephen Harrigan, author of Big Wonderful Thing: A History of Texas
"Riveting and eye-opening. Renowned western scholar Paul Hutton has written a pivotal masterpiece that changes our way of thinking about the American West...This is Paul Hutton's greatest book -- intellectually bold, engaging, and brilliant." -- Donald L. Fixico, Regents and Distinguished Foundation Professor of History, Arizona State University
The Apache Wars: The Hunt for Geronimo, the Apache Kid and the Captive Boy Who Started the Longest War in American History
"Hutton proves once again why he is a great writer as well as a great historian." —T.J. Stiles on The Apache Wars
"Paul Hutton is one the great scholars of Western Americana, but he's also a natural born storyteller." —Hampton Sides on The Apache Wars
Paul Andrew Hutton is an American Western, cultural and military historian, an award-winning author, documentary writer, and television personality. He is Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus at the University of New Mexico, a former executive director of the Western History Association, and a past president of Western Writers of America. He currently serves as the curator of the Buffalo Bill Museum at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Cody, Wyoming. Born in Frankfurt, Germany, and adopted as an infant by an American Air Force couple, he was raised around the world--in Germany, England, and Taiwan--as well as in Texas and Indiana. He attended college at Indiana University where he received his doctorate in American history in 1981, and has taught at both Utah State University (1977-1985) and at the University of New Mexico (1985-2025). He is a six time winner of the Western Writers of America Spur Award and a six time winner of the Western Heritage Award from the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum. His first book, Phil Sheridan and His Army received the Billington Prize from the Organization of American Historians, the Evans Biography Award, and the Spur Award. His The Apache Wars (2016) also received a Spur Award as well as the HisLibris Award for the Spanish translation. He is also the editor of Western Heritage (2011), Roundup (2010), Frontier and Region (1997), The Custer Reader (1992), Soldiers West (1987), and the ten-volume Bantam Eyewitness to the Civil War series (1991-93). He has appeared in over 300 television shows on the History Channel, Discovery, PBS, NBC, CBS, BBC, Fox, Netflix and other networks and has written a dozen documentaries for television and state and national parks. He also served as historical consultant on such Hollywood films as The Missing (2003), Cowboys and Aliens (2010), and Jane Got a Gun(2016) and even has a speaking role in David Zucker's Naked Gun 33 1/3 (1994). He has five children--Laura, Caitlin, Lorena, Chelsea, and Paul Andy--and lives in Cody with wife Tracy and pups Sandra Day O'Connor and Annie Oakley. His latest book is The Undiscovered Country from Penguin Random House/Dutton Publishing Group.
Winner of the Western Writers of America Spur Award, The Apache Wars
Winner of the Best Nonfiction Book Award from True West magazine, The Apache Wars
Finalist, Evans Biography Prize, The Apache Wars
Winner of the Western Writers of America Spur Award, Phil Sheridan and His Army
Winner of the Evans Biography Prize, Phil Sheridan and His Army
Winner of the Organization of American Historians Ray Allen Billington Prize, Phil Sheridan and His Army
Winner of the John M. Carroll Literary Award, Little Big Horn Associates, The Custer Reader