Indians and Emigrants Encounters on the Overland Trails

Name: Indians and Emigrants Encounters on the Overland Trails
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ISBN: 9780806146546

ISBN-10: 0806146540

ISBN-13: 9780806146546

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Authors: Michael L. Tate

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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 Having combed hundreds of unpublished sources and Indian oral traditions, Tate finds Indians and Anglo-Americans continuously trading goods and news with each other, and Indians providing various forms of assistance to overlanders.Tate admits that both sides normally followed their own best interests and ethical standards, which sometimes created distrust. But many acts of kindness by emigrants and by Indians can be attributed to simple human compassion.Not until the mid-1850s did Plains…

Book details

List price: $21.95
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Publication date: 7/16/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.86" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

MICHAEL L. TATE is Professor of History at University of Nebraska, Omaha. Among his previously published books are The Frontier Army in the Settlement of the West and Indians and Emigrants on the Overland Trails: Myths Reexamined.