Shoshonean peoples and the overland trails: frontiers of the Utah Superintendency of Indian Affairs, 1849-1869
Date
2007
Authors
Smoak, Gregory E., author
Morgan, Dale L., author
Saunders, Richard L., editor
Utah State University Press, publisher
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Abstract
This compilation of Dale Morgan's historical work on Indians in the Intermountain West focuses primarily on the Shoshone who lived near the Oregon and California trails. Three connected works by Morgan are included: First is his classic article on the history of the Utah Superintendency of Indian Affairs. This is followed by an important set of government reports and correspondence from the National Archives concerning the Eastern Shoshone and their leader Washakie. Morgan heavily annotated these for serial publication in the Annals of Wyoming. He also wrote a previously unpublished history of early relations among the Western Shoshone, emigrants, and the government along the California Trail. Morgan biographer Richard L. Saunders introduced, edited, and further annotated this collection. His introduction includes an intellectual biography of Morgan that focuses on the place of the anthologized pieces in Morgan's corpus. Gregory E. Smoak, a leading historian of the Shoshone, contributed an ethnohistorical essay as additional context for Morgan's work.
Description
Ethnohistorical essay by Gregory E. Smoak.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Rights Access
Access is limited to the Adams State University, Colorado State University, Colorado State University Pueblo, Community College of Denver, Fort Lewis College, Metropolitan State University Denver, Regis University, University of Alaska Fairbanks, University of Colorado Boulder, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, University of Colorado Denver, University of Denver, University of Northern Colorado, University of Wyoming, Utah State University and Western Colorado University communities only.
Subject
Shoshoni Indians -- Government relations
Shoshoni Indians -- History
Shoshoni Indians -- Social conditions
Mormon Church -- History
Overland journeys to the Pacific
Oregon National Historic Trail
California National Historic Trail
United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Utah Superintendency -- History