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One Vast Winter Count: The Native American West before Lewis and Clark
Colin G. Calloway
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Description for One Vast Winter Count: The Native American West before Lewis and Clark
Paperback. Traces the histories of the Native people of the American West from their arrival thousands of years ago to the early years of the nineteenth century. Emphasizing conflict and change, this work offers a look at the early history of the region by blending ethnohistory, colonial history, and frontier history. Series: History of the American West. Num Pages: 631 pages, 22 photographs, 15 maps. BIC Classification: 1KB; GTB; HBJK; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 175 x 227 x 33. Weight in Grams: 866.
This magnificent, sweeping work traces the histories of the Native peoples of the American West from their arrival thousands of years ago to the early years of the nineteenth century. Emphasizing conflict and change, One Vast Winter Count offers a new look at the early history of the region by blending ethnohistory, colonial history, and frontier history. Drawing on a wide range of oral and archival sources from across the West, Colin G. Calloway offers an unparalleled glimpse at the lives of generations of Native peoples in a western land soon to be overrun.
This magnificent, sweeping work traces the histories of the Native peoples of the American West from their arrival thousands of years ago to the early years of the nineteenth century. Emphasizing conflict and change, One Vast Winter Count offers a new look at the early history of the region by blending ethnohistory, colonial history, and frontier history. Drawing on a wide range of oral and archival sources from across the West, Colin G. Calloway offers an unparalleled glimpse at the lives of generations of Native peoples in a western land soon to be overrun.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Number of pages
631
Condition
New
Series
History of the American West
Number of Pages
631
Place of Publication
Nebraska, United States
ISBN
9780803264656
SKU
V9780803264656
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About Colin G. Calloway
Colin G. Calloway is the Samson Occom Professor of Native American Studies, professor of history, and chair of the Native American studies program at Dartmouth College. He is the coeditor of Germans and Indians: Fantasies, Projections, Encounters (Nebraska 2002) and the author of many works, including New Worlds for All: Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of Early America.
Reviews for One Vast Winter Count: The Native American West before Lewis and Clark
"A splendid overview of the Native American West to the end of the eighteenth century."-Larry McMurtry, New York Review of Books
Larry McMurtry New York Review of Books "Author of First Peoples and a distinguished Dartmouth historian, Calloway concentrates on the Indian experience from the Appalachians to the Pacific, in a time frame from prehistory to the 18th century. ... Read more
Larry McMurtry New York Review of Books "Author of First Peoples and a distinguished Dartmouth historian, Calloway concentrates on the Indian experience from the Appalachians to the Pacific, in a time frame from prehistory to the 18th century. ... Read more