Exiles and Pioneers: Eastern Indians in the Trans-Mississippi West

by John P. Bowes

Book Overview

Exiles and Pioneers analyzes the removal and post-removal histories of Shawnee, Delaware, Wyandot, and Potawatomi Indians. The book argues that the experience of these eastern Indians from the late 1700s to the 1860s was at its core a struggle over geographic and political place within the expanding United States. Even as American expansion limited the geographic scope of Indian lands, the extension of American territories and authority raised important...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521674190
• ISBN13: 9780521674195
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.0"