Contested Plains Indians, Goldseekers, and the Rush to Colorado

Name: Contested Plains Indians, Goldseekers, and the Rush to Colorado
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ISBN: 9780700610297

ISBN-10: 0700610294

ISBN-13: 9780700610297

Edition: 1998

Authors: Elliott West

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Deftly retracing a pivotal chapter in one of America's most dramatic stories, Elliott West chronicles the struggles, triumphs, and defeats of both Indians and whites as they pursued their clashing dreams of greatness in the heart of the continent. The Contested Plains recounts the rise of the Native American horse culture, white Americans' discovery and pursuit of gold in the Rocky Mountains, and the wrenching changes and bitter conflicts that ensued. After centuries of many peoples fashioning many cultures on the plains, the Cheyennes and other tribes found in the horse the power to create a heroic way of life that dominated one of the world's great grasslands. Then the discovery of gold…

Book details

List price: $21.95
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Publication date: 4/24/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 446
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.14" tall
Weight: 1.694
Language: English

Elliott West is Professor of American History at the University of Arkansas.



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Prologue: A Scrap and a Panic



Visions



The Old World



Frontiers and Visions



The Called Out People



Gold Rush



The Gold



The Gathering



The Rush



Power



Path of Empire



On the Road to a Flourishing Mountain State



The People of the Centre



The Miseries of Failure



Epilogue: Stories in the Teeth of Life


Notes


Bibliography


Index