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Pioneer Days in the Early Southwest

History

FOREMAN, GRANT

Americas

Franklin Classics

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.

Bison Books

It is unlikely that any single book or document will ever earn a more firmly-fixed position of respect and authority than this distinguished volume by Grant Foreman. Originally published in 1932, on the date of the hundredth anniversary of the arrival in Oklahoma of the first Indians as a result of the United States government’s relocation of the Five Civilized Tribes, Indian Removal remains today the definitive book in its field.The forcible uprooting and expulsion of the 60,000 Indians comprising the Five Civilized Tribes, including the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, Cherokee, and Seminole, unfolded a story without parallel in the history of the United States. For more than a decade thousands of tragedies and experiences of absorbing interest marked the removal over the "Trail of Tears," but there were no chroniclers at hand to record them. Only occasionally did the tragedy and pathos of some phase of this history-making undertaking beguile a sympathetic officer to turn from routine and write a line or a paragraph of comment.From fragments in thousands of manuscripts and in official and unofficial reports Grant Foreman gleaned the materials for this book to provide readers with an unbiased day-by-day recital of events.

Indian Removal

University Of Oklahoma Press. 1976

Side by side with the westward drift of white Americans in the 1830's was the forced migration of the Five Civilized Tribes from Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and Florida. Both groups were deployed against the tribes of the prairies, both breaking the soil of the undeveloped hinterland. Both were striving in the years before the Civil War to found schools, churches, and towns, as well as to preserve orderly development through government and laws.In this book Grant Foreman brings to light the singular effect the westward movement of Indians had in the cultivation and settlement of the Trans-Mississippi region. It shows the Indian genius at its best and conveys the importance of the Cherokees, Chickasaws, Choctaws, Creeks, and Seminoles to the nascent culture of the plains. Their achievements between 1830 and 1860 were of vast importance in the making of America.

The Five Civilized Tribes: Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, Seminole

University of Oklahoma Press

Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1967. Revised Edition; 2nd Printing, Hardbound, 9.25 inches tall, 285 pages. Bibliography, index. Volume 14 in The Civilization of the American Indian Series. Eight black and white plates plus a foldout map. Originally published by Yale University Press in 1930; the revised edition was published in 1936; this is a later printing of that revised edition.

Indians and Pioneers. the Story of the American Southwest Before 1830. (Reprint of the 1936 Ed)#(Civilization of the American Indian Series, Vol 14)

Univ of Oklahoma Pr (Trd)

Advancing the Frontier, 1830-1860 (Civilization of American Indian)

Side by side with the westward drift of white Americans in the 1830's was the forced migration of the Five Civilized Tribes from Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and Florida. Both groups were deployed against the tribes of the prairies, both breaking the soil of the undeveloped hinterland. Both were striving in the years before the Civil War to found schools, churches, and towns, as well as to preserve orderly development through government and laws. In this book Grant Foreman brings to light the singular effect the westward movement of Indians had in the cultivation and settlement of the Trans-Mississippi region. It shows the Indian genius at its best and conveys the importance of the Cherokees, Chickasaws, Choctaws, Creeks, and Seminoles to the nascent culture of the plains. Their achievements between 1830 and 1860 were of vast importance in the making of America.

The Five Civilized Tribes: Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, Seminole (Civilization of the American Indian) (Volume 8)

Sequoyah is widely celebrated as an unlettered Cherokee Indian who, entirely from the resources of his own brilliant mind, endowed his whole tribe with learning-the only man in history to conceive and perfect in its entirety an alphabet or syllabary. Soon after 1800, Sequoyah began to realize the magic of writing. He and other Indians of the time, who occasionally saw samples of writing, called these mysterious pages the white man's "talking leaf." He experimented aimlessly at first, but gradually his conception took practical shape. It was slow and laborious work for an untutored Cherokee. Finally, after twelve years of labor and discouragement, he completed his syllabary, composed of eighty-five symbols, each representing a sound in the Cherokee language. The simplicity of the syllabary and its easy adaptability to the speech and thought of his people enabled them to master it in a few days. The Cherokee nation was made practically literate within a few months.

Sequoyah (Civilization of the American Indian Series, Vol. 16) (Volume 16)

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

It is unlikely that any single book or document will ever earn a more firmly-fixed position of respect and authority than this distinguished volume by Grant Foreman. Originally published in 1932, on the date of the hundredth anniversary of the arrival in Oklahoma of the first Indians as a result of the United States government’s relocation of the Five Civilized Tribes, Indian Removal remains today the definitive book in its field.
The forcible uprooting and expulsion of the 60,000 Indians comprising the Five Civilized Tribes, including the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, Cherokee, and Seminole, unfolded a story without parallel in the history of the United States. For more than a decade thousands of tragedies and experiences of absorbing interest marked the removal over the "Trail of Tears," but there were no chroniclers at hand to record them. Only occasionally did the tragedy and pathos of some phase of this history-making undertaking beguile a sympathetic officer to turn from routine and write a line or a paragraph of comment.
From fragments in thousands of manuscripts and in official and unofficial reports Grant Foreman gleaned the materials for this book to provide readers with an unbiased day-by-day recital of events.

Indian Removal: The Emigration of the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians (Volume 2) (The Civilization of the American Indian Series)

Within that vast region from the Mississippi River to the boundaries of New Spain many Indian tribes waged their most crucial defense against the white pioneers. Here the fierce Osage and other western tribes fought for possession of the land. Here the warriors of the Five Civilized Tribes sought a hunting ground unmolested by greedy whites. But they were not left unmolested for long. The military moved into the country to keep order on the frontier as white traders, ranchers. and farmers began to intrude into these promising lands. The commandants of the forts vainly tried to form workable alliances and establish harmonious relations between the Indians and the pioneers. But the Indians were desperate; they were being hemmed in by advancing white settlement, and they tried with forays and depredations-the only weapons at their command-to stem the tide. In this book the story of the Indians, the pioneers, and the military is told with Grant Foreman's characteristic penetrating analysis and wealth of pertinent detail. Originally published by Yale University in 1930. this revised edition of Mr. Foreman's distinguished work is truly a classic in the history of the Southwest. "This painstaking record deserves a permanent place in the history of the American Southwest."-London Times Literary Supplement. "A book of much interest for thoughtful readers."-Christian Science Monitor. "A dashing record of the clash in the southwest before the removal act of 1830."-Chicago Tribune.

Indians and Pioneers (The Civilization of the American Indian, Volume 14)

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Pioneer Days in the Early Southwest

Pioneer Days in the Early Southwest

Indian Removal

The Five Civilized Tribes: Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, Seminole

Indians and Pioneers. the Story of the American Southwest Before 1830. (Reprint of the 1936 Ed)#(Civilization of the American Indian Series, Vol 14)

Advancing the Frontier, 1830-1860 (Civilization of American Indian)

The Five Civilized Tribes: Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, Seminole (Civilization of the American Indian) (Volume 8)

Sequoyah (Civilization of the American Indian Series, Vol. 16) (Volume 16)

Indian Removal: The Emigration of the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians (Volume 2) (The Civilization of the American Indian Series)

Indians and Pioneers (The Civilization of the American Indian, Volume 14)