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Author Tate, Michael L.

Title Indians and emigrants : encounters on the overland trails / Michael L. Tate.

Publication Info. Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2006]
©2006

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 Moore Stacks  E78.W5 T38 2006    Available  ---
Description xxiv, 328 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-312) and index.
Contents Preparing the way : a cacophony of confusion, misinformation, and alarm -- Across the wide Missouri : first impressions of Indian country -- A mutual bargain : trade on the Overland Trail -- Seeing the elephant : Indian assistance to beleaguered overlanders -- Humanizing the experience : getting to know strangers as friends -- Accruing the benefits : friends as advocates and benefactors -- Responding to the alarm : bison, epidemics, burials, and fires -- Massacred by Indians : an exaggerated tale -- Captivity infinitely worse than death : an exaggerated tale -- From cooperation to conflict : a more dangerous world begins -- Conclusion.
Subject Indians of North America -- First contact with other peoples -- West (U.S.)
Indians of North America -- First contact with other peoples.
Indian trails -- West (U.S.) -- History.
Indian trails.
History.
White people -- West (U.S.) -- Relations with Indians.
White people.
Relations with Indians.
Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.)
Frontier and pioneer life.
Indians, Treatment of -- West (U.S.) -- History.
Indians, Treatment of.
Overland Trails -- History -- Sources.
Overland journeys to the Pacific -- History -- Sources.
Overland journeys to the Pacific.
Genre/Form Sources.
Subject Indianen.
Europeanen.
7.100.
ISBN 080613710X alkaline paper
9780806137100 alkaline paper