Language: en
Pages: 450
Pages: 450
Presents a study of the Rocky Mountain fur trade and its impact on westward expansion
Language: en
Pages: 213
Pages: 213
Westerns may have had their heyday, but they remain popular. The greatest films from 1914, when The Squaw Man and The Virginian were among the genre’s best, through 2001, when American Outlaws and Texas Rangers were tops, are the subject of this work. For each year, the author names the
Language: en
Pages: 180
Pages: 180
For the first time, an accomplished scholar offers a painstakingly researched examination of the United States' involvement in deliberate disease spreading among native peoples in the military conquest of the West. * Chapters focusing on four charges of deliberate disease spreading among Native American peoples * An extraordinary collection of
Language: en
Pages: 352
Pages: 352
In the first book to focus on relations between Indians and emigrants on the overland trails, Michael L. Tate shows that such encounters were far more often characterized by cooperation than by conflict. Having combed hundreds of unpublished sources and Indian oral traditions, Tate finds Indians and Anglo-Americans continuously trading
Language: en
Pages: 205
Pages: 205
Traces the experiences of a Black family from just after the Civil War to the radical sixties