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Savage Frontier, Vol. II, 1838-1839: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas (review)

Savage Frontier, Vol. II, 1838-1839: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas (review) 2007 Book Reviews 551 contributed to misunderstandings in life and misinterpretations in history books. Tate drew heavily upon voluminous records left by overland emigrants and on newspaper reports to tell the emigrants’ stories. His efforts to find Indian voices brought much frustration but yielded some important sources that add depth to the story and lend strength to his interpretation. For example, he makes good use of Emily Levine’s edition of Susan Bordeaux Bettelyoun and Josephine Waggoner, With My Own Eyes: A Lakota Woman Tells Her People’s History and work by scholars such as Jeffrey Ostler, who have brought American Indian voices to the foreground in the decades since Unruh’s and Riley’s books appeared. Scholars need to do more work on this very difficult front, but Tate has advanced the field. Indians and emigrants found strangeness, danger, and death along the central overland trails, but Tate reports most people found cooperation and curiosity. The neighborhood around the trails held more danger for Indians than for emigrants, a trend exacerbated by the Civil War and depletion of resources as more travelers and animals wore a path across the continent and consumed increasingly scarce vital resources found in the river valleys where http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southwestern Historical Quarterly Texas State Historical Association

Savage Frontier, Vol. II, 1838-1839: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas (review)

Cardenas, Alfredo E.
Southwestern Historical Quarterly , Volume 110 (4) – Jun 11, 2007
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Texas State Historical Association
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2007 Book Reviews 551 contributed to misunderstandings in life and misinterpretations in history books. Tate drew heavily upon voluminous records left by overland emigrants and on newspaper reports to tell the emigrants’ stories. His efforts to find Indian voices brought much frustration but yielded some important sources that add depth to the story and lend strength to his interpretation. For example, he makes good use of Emily Levine’s edition of Susan Bordeaux Bettelyoun and Josephine Waggoner, With My Own Eyes: A Lakota Woman Tells Her People’s History and work by scholars such as Jeffrey Ostler, who have brought American Indian voices to the foreground in the decades since Unruh’s and Riley’s books appeared. Scholars need to do more work on this very difficult front, but Tate has advanced the field. Indians and emigrants found strangeness, danger, and death along the central overland trails, but Tate reports most people found cooperation and curiosity. The neighborhood around the trails held more danger for Indians than for emigrants, a trend exacerbated by the Civil War and depletion of resources as more travelers and animals wore a path across the continent and consumed increasingly scarce vital resources found in the river valleys where

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Southwestern Historical Quarterly – Texas State Historical Association

Published: Jun 11, 2007

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