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Indians, Alcohol, and the Roads to Taos and Santa Fe
William E. Unrau
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Hardcover. Focusing on the illicit alcohol trade in Indian Country, this book explains how federally develoed roads from Missouri to northern New Mexico, especially after 1834, facilitated the diffusion of both spirits and habits of over-drinjking within Native American cultures. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; JFFH; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 386.
In the culture of the American West, images abound of Indians drunk on the white man’s firewater, a historical stereotype William Unrau has explored in two previous books. His latest study focuses on how federally-developed roads from Missouri to northern New Mexico facilitated the diffusion of both spirits and habits of over-drinking within Native American cultures.
Unrau investigates how it came about that distilled alcohol, designated illegal under penalty of federal fines and imprisonment as a trade item for Indian people, was nevertheless easily obtainable by most Indians along the Taos and Santa Fe roads after 1821. Unrau reveals ... Read more
In the culture of the American West, images abound of Indians drunk on the white man’s firewater, a historical stereotype William Unrau has explored in two previous books. His latest study focuses on how federally-developed roads from Missouri to northern New Mexico facilitated the diffusion of both spirits and habits of over-drinking within Native American cultures.
Unrau investigates how it came about that distilled alcohol, designated illegal under penalty of federal fines and imprisonment as a trade item for Indian people, was nevertheless easily obtainable by most Indians along the Taos and Santa Fe roads after 1821. Unrau reveals ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Kansas, United States
ISBN
9780700619146
SKU
V9780700619146
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About William E. Unrau
William E. Unrau is Emeritus Distinguished Professor of History at Wichita State University, USA and author of ten previous books about Native Americans, including The Rise and Fall of Indian Country; White Man’s Wicked Water; and, with Craig Miner, the classic The End of Indian Kansas: A History of Cultural Revolution.
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