Record details

• ISBN: 0803257147
• ISBN: 9780803257146
• Physical Description: xv, 370 pages : map ; 21 cm
• Publisher: Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press [1972]

Content descriptions

General Note:

"This volume reproduces the text and footnotes of chapters one through thirty-three of Among the Indians: eight years in the Far West, 1858-1866."

Formatted Contents Note:

Historical introduction -- Preface -- Fur trade and navigation on the Upper Missouri -- From St. Louis to Fort Clark -- To the Yellowstone and back -- A day in an Indian village -- Nightfall and repose -- The trading post and a buffalo hunt -- A raid and a medicine man -- A buffalo hunt that failed -- The Mandans make medicine -- Another false alarm -- A trading excursion -- Return to Fort Atkinson -- Goose medicine and visitors -- A friendly visit -- Removal to winter quarters -- Building the winter quarters -- Winter travel and recreation -- Winter time activities at Fort Atkinson -- Making buffalo-medicine -- A mid-winter buffalo hunt -- Smallpox ravages and Indian history -- A tragedy and a feast -- Indian ideas and winter journeys -- A Sioux raid -- Leaving the winter camp -- Springtime and hostile raids -- Warfare and the Calumet dance -- Military defeat and Sioux visitors -- The revenge of Pierre Garreau -- Indian chatter and friendly Crows -- A musician and a ride for life -- Arrival of the steamboats -- A quarrel over prices -- A hazardous voyage -- The Tobacco Garden Massacre -- Life at Fort Union in 1863 -- A surprise attack -- Alder Gulch and vigilante rule -- Gentiles and Mormons -- Mormon prosperity and sermons -- Mormonism and stage travel -- Change and farewell -- The Indian question.

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Subject:

Indians of North America > Northwestern States.
Frontier and pioneer life > Northwestern States.