Pioneer Days in the Early Southwest by Grant Foreman

Pioneer Days in the Early Southwest by Grant Foreman

This pioneering work is about the traders, trappers, and explorers in the vast area that would become Oklahoma, Texas, Missouri, Arkansas, New Mexico, Kansas, and Colorado. Foreman describes the early explorations of the French and Spanish in the Louisiana Territory and often focuses on the junction of the Verdigris, Grand, and Arkansas rivers, known as the Three Forks, a trading and military center from which the conquest of a large part of the American Southwest was achieved. Viewed in historical perspective are the business enterprises of A. P. Chouteau and others; treaties with the Indians and warfare between the Cherokees and Osage; massacres and disease epidemics; garrison life at Fort Gibson and the visits of writer Washington Irving and painter George Catlin; expeditions into the Southwest led by Colonel Henry Dodge, Captain Benjamin de Bonneville, and others; Sam Houston's sojourn in Indian country; and warfare on the Texas border.

"One of the best books ever written about the Southwest"—Stanley Vestal

Grant Foreman is highly regarded as an authority on the Five Civilized Tribes. His career is noted in an introduction by Donald E. Worcester, a professor of history at Texas Christian University and well known for such books as The Chisholm Trail: High Road of the Cattle Kingdom.

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ISBN 13	9780803268838
ISBN 10	0803268831
Title	Pioneer Days in the Early Southwest
Author	Grant Foreman
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	University of Nebraska Press
Year published	1994-03-01
Number of pages	345
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.