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Pioneer Days in the Early Southwest (Hardcover): Grant Foreman Pioneer Days in the Early Southwest (Hardcover)
Grant Foreman
R864 Discovery Miles 8 640 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Adventure In Red River - Report On The Exploration Of The Headwaters Of The Red River By Captain Randolph Marcy And Captain... Adventure In Red River - Report On The Exploration Of The Headwaters Of The Red River By Captain Randolph Marcy And Captain Mcclellan (Hardcover)
Grant Foreman
R937 Discovery Miles 9 370 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

The Five Civilized Tribes (Paperback): Grant Foreman The Five Civilized Tribes (Paperback)
Grant Foreman
R694 R590 Discovery Miles 5 900 Save R104 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Pioneer Days in the Early Southwest (Paperback): Grant Foreman Pioneer Days in the Early Southwest (Paperback)
Grant Foreman
R661 Discovery Miles 6 610 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Fort Gibson A Brief History (Paperback): Grant Foreman Carolyn Thomas Foreman Fort Gibson A Brief History (Paperback)
Grant Foreman Carolyn Thomas Foreman
R417 R362 Discovery Miles 3 620 Save R55 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Traveler in Indian Territory - The Journal of Ethan Allen Hitchcock (Paperback): Ethan Allen Hitchcock A Traveler in Indian Territory - The Journal of Ethan Allen Hitchcock (Paperback)
Ethan Allen Hitchcock; Edited by Grant Foreman; Foreword by Michael D Green
R750 Discovery Miles 7 500 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In 1841 U.S. government authorities sent Major Ethan Allen Hitchcock to Indian Territory to investigate numerous charges of fraud and profiteering by various contractors dealing with the Cherokee, Creek, Seminole, Chickasaw, and Choctaw Indians, who had been removed from the South during the last decade. Hitchcock's report, filed after four months of travel, exposed such a high level of graft and corruption that his investigation was suppressed and never brought to the attention of Congress.

Hitchcock kept nine personal diaries of his travels and observations, however, and they reveal much historic and ethnographic information on Indian life in Indian Territory. He observes how the Indians were adjusting alter removal and includes many details on their customs, beliefs, culture, religion, ceremonies, amusements, industry, tribal councils, and government. To aid the modern reader, editor Grant Foreman provides an introduction and annotations, and Michael D. Green, in his foreword, explains the politics behind Hitchcock's mission to Indian Territory and his accomplishments in advancing ethnographic knowledge.

Adverture in Red River (Paperback): Grant Foreman Adverture in Red River (Paperback)
Grant Foreman
R618 Discovery Miles 6 180 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Indian Removal - The Emigration of the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians (Paperback, New ed): Grant Foreman Indian Removal - The Emigration of the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians (Paperback, New ed)
Grant Foreman; Foreword by Angie Debo
R576 R493 Discovery Miles 4 930 Save R83 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

The Chronicles of Oklahoma, V17, No. 4, December, 1939 (Paperback): Grant Foreman, George H Evans, John B. Meserve The Chronicles of Oklahoma, V17, No. 4, December, 1939 (Paperback)
Grant Foreman, George H Evans, John B. Meserve
R621 Discovery Miles 6 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Additional Editors Harry Campbell And James W. Moffitt. Contents Include Governor Robert Maxwell Harris By John Bartlett Meserve; Beginning Of Quaker Administration Of Indian Affairs In Oklahoma By Aubrey L. Steele; Southwestern Oil Boom Towns By Gerald Forbes; The Civil War In The Indian Territory 1861, Continued, By Dean Trickett; Indian International Fair By Ella Robinson; Negotiations Leading To The Chickasaw-Choctaw Agreement, January 17, 1837 Edited By Gaston Litton; Diary Of A Missionary To The Choctaws Edited By Anna Lewis.

The Chronicles of Oklahoma, V18, No. 3, September, 1940 (Paperback): James W Moffitt, Grant Foreman, George Evans The Chronicles of Oklahoma, V18, No. 3, September, 1940 (Paperback)
James W Moffitt, Grant Foreman, George Evans
R647 Discovery Miles 6 470 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Sequoyah (Paperback): Grant Foreman Sequoyah (Paperback)
Grant Foreman
R407 Discovery Miles 4 070 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Indians & Pioneers - The Story Of The American Southwest Before 1830 (Paperback): Grant Foreman Indians & Pioneers - The Story Of The American Southwest Before 1830 (Paperback)
Grant Foreman
R838 Discovery Miles 8 380 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Indians j f me The Story of the American Southwest before 1830 BY GRANT FOREMAN New Haven Tale University Press LONDON . HUMPHEET MILIWD OXFOED TTNIVEESITT PEBSS 1930 Copyright 1930 by Yale University Press Printed in the United States of America No 11 To the Memory of My Father and Mother w PREFACE HEN early writers told of the West and Southwest, they were, with few exceptions, writing of a region east of the Mississippi River. As the country enlarged after the Mexican War and the discovery of gold, the West suddenly expanded to the Pacific, and the Southwest of that period was the region colored by the romantic atmosphere of Spain. The Northwest had its Lewis and Clark, its Astoria, and the Oregon Trail. Historians and novelists have reaped harvests from the fertile soil between Westport and the Pacific with narratives of the covered wagon, the pony express, and the cow-horse. The adventures of explor ers and military expeditions, the saga of white settle ment and pioneering in this boundless domain have been celebrated in volumes without number. For years scholars have been bringing into view thou sands of manuscripts from the opulent archives of Spain and Mexico, to contribute to the history of our Spanish domain and Southwest came to suggest the land of Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, and California, of the cliff dweller, the pueblo, and the Spanish mission. But there was another Southwest that has remained in eclipse. Between the Mississippi River and New Spain was a region little known. That part of the original Missouri Territory which afterward became Arkansas Territory, southern Missouri, and southern Kansas, has held for the historian only a fugitive interest. When the state waserected out of Arkansas Territory, the remain ing domain extending westward to the Spanish posses sions was held as an Indian country, and until modern times was not opened up for settlement by white people and thereby it missed much of the romance of white x Indians and Pioneers pioneering. Before the Civil War the Government made several abortive efforts to set up an Indian state here, where many indigenous and immigrant tribes were to be combined under a government in which they would all participate. This interesting experiment was never put into operation as the plans of the Government were in variably rejected by the Indian owners of the soil, though they were at the time engaged in building up an interesting civilization here. When the state of Oklahoma was admitted to the Un ion, with four times as many people as there were in the next largest state at the time of its admission, it began with a degree of literacy exceeding that of most pioneer states. Unlike other young states, her civilization was to a great extent the civilization of the aborigines. The In dian owners of this land had erected orderly constitu tional governments, and established schools patronized by them with a zeal unequaled by most frontier white settlements. These and other interesting characteristics peculiar to this region developed from an equally interesting early history that distinguished it from the surrounding territory. While most of the writers of books have passed it by in quest of the white mans adventures, this Ameri can Southwest was not wanting for chroniclers of early conditions and events. More than one hundred years ago army officers, Indian agents, factors, traders, and missionaries, matter-of-fact observers of this virgin country from the Mississippi to the Spanish possessions, in the discharge of routine duties began recording and forwarding their accounts to the East. These documents accumulated in the dust-covered files of official store rooms, appeared in early prints, or in more recent years drifted into the archives of historical societies...

Adventure In Red River - Report On The Exploration Of The Headwaters Of The Red River By Captain Randolph Marcy And Captain... Adventure In Red River - Report On The Exploration Of The Headwaters Of The Red River By Captain Randolph Marcy And Captain Mcclellan (Paperback)
Grant Foreman
R913 Discovery Miles 9 130 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Indian Justice - A Cherokee Murder Trial at Tahlequah in 1840 (Paperback, Red River Books ed): John Howard Payne Indian Justice - A Cherokee Murder Trial at Tahlequah in 1840 (Paperback, Red River Books ed)
John Howard Payne; Edited by Grant Foreman; Foreword by Rennard Strickland
R683 Discovery Miles 6 830 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In "Indian Justice," Grant Foreman presents John Howard Payne's first-hand account of the trial of Archilla Smith, a Cherokee charged with the murder of John MacIntosh in the fall of 1839. The Cherokee Supreme Court at Tahlequah (in present-day Oklahoma) found Smith guilty and sentenced him to die.

Occurring immediately after the Cherokee Removal to west of the Mississippi River, the trial involved people on both sides of the bitter factional controversies then raging in the Cherokee nation. Payne's account of this important Indian case first appeared in two installments in the "New York Journal of Commerce in 1841."

In his foreword to this new edition, Rennard Strickland places the case in historical and contemporary context, exploring the evolution of tribal court systems and Indian justice over the past century and a half.

Missionaries of the Latter Day Saints Church in Indian Territory (Paperback): Grant Foreman Missionaries of the Latter Day Saints Church in Indian Territory (Paperback)
Grant Foreman
R306 Discovery Miles 3 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Pioneer Days in the Early Southwest (Paperback): Grant Foreman Pioneer Days in the Early Southwest (Paperback)
Grant Foreman; Introduction by Donald E Worcester
R490 R424 Discovery Miles 4 240 Save R66 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

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