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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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Marc Ferm
reviewed Pioneer Days in the Early Southwest on November 12, 2011
Pioneer Days in the Early Southwest
Doesn't everyone need to read a pure guilty pleasure once in a while? From the resounding silence, I would guess that the answer is no, and it's just me who sees books like this on the library shelf, looks around, plucks it off, hides it under a pile of more "worthy" books and scurries to the check-out desk praying that the librarian doesn't give me a look of "have you lost your mind" while stamping the due date in the back. What can I say? I'm shallow. On the negative side, much of this ground has been plowed before--some of it repeatedly. On the positive side, there were a number of rather famous people quoted who talked as if the affair between Jackie Kennedy and Bobby Kennedy was not a big secret. According to the author, the two Kennedys turned to each other in their grief after the assassination of John Kennedy and they continued their affair until Bobby made the decision to run for President in 1968. If even half of this is true, it's easy to see why Jackie Kennedy decided to marry Aristotle Onassis less than six months after Bobby's assassination. Also on the positive side, the book is short--about 200 pages. So if you have a beach trip planned and you are interested in the intimate, and I mean, intimate details of the lives of the famous, this might be the book for you. Now I just have to get it back into the library--I'm thinking under both a bulky sweater and the cover of darkness.
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