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By Michael L. Tate

ISBN-10: 080613710X

ISBN-13: 9780806137100

ISBN-10: 0806182040

ISBN-13: 9780806182049

Within the first ebook to target relatives among Indians and emigrants at the overland trails, Michael L. Tate indicates that such encounters have been way more frequently characterised by way of cooperation than through clash. Having combed hundreds of thousands of unpublished assets and Indian oral traditions, Tate unearths Indians and Anglo-Americans constantly buying and selling items and information with one another, and Indians supplying a variety of varieties of tips to overlanders.

regardless of hundreds of thousands of jointly important exchanges among whites and Indians among 1840 and 1870, a twin of Plains Indians because the overland pioneers' worst enemies prevailed in American pop culture. In explaining the patience of that stereotype, Tate seeks to dispel one of many West's oldest cultural misunderstandings.

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27 Three years earlier, Edwin Bryant had crossed near the same spot on the Wakarusa River, and although he mentioned no Shawnees, he favorably remarked on a handsome Potawatomi man who was selling moccasins. 28 Twenty-five miles to the north, at St. Mary’s Mission, Potawatomies provided similar support to passing wagon trains. 29 The following spring Madison Moorman found several hundred wagons, which had been slowed by several days of rain, preparing to traverse Cross Creek. By this time the overlanders could choose between two bridges, with the toll across one being five cents per wagon and the second, ten cents.

As overlanders poured out of the various jumping-off towns in and around modern-day Kansas City, Missouri, they often encountered Kaws along the trail. Rather than concentrating their attention on rendering services at the smaller waterways, men of this tribe offered help across the more formidable Kansas River, whose dangers closely paralleled those of the Missouri River. Several crossings existed in the area of present-day Topeka, Kansas, but none could be forded by wagons alone, so ferry services were established to transport passengers and wagons.

Sales records of dime novels from the House of Beadle and Adams testify to the success of these inexpensively produced books. The first of the series, Ann S. 42 Not all of these volumes focused on American Indians, but at least through the 1860s Indian villains were most often the source of contention for the featured hero. Under Erastus Beadle’s steady hand, the frontier series sold almost five million copies between 1860 and 1865. 43 Such was the widespread impact of these dime novels that respected essayist William Everett wrote a mildly condemnatory article in an 1864 issue of the North American Review.

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