Guns, Furs, and Gold

An American West History of Indigenous Peoples and Explorers

Larry E. Morris (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

328 Seiten

2026
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-1-4962-3761-3 (ISBN)

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Guns, Furs, and Gold offers a riveting narrative of the American West by exploring the interactions of the Arikaras, Crows, Cheyennes, and Arapahos with each other and with Euro-American traders, explorers, and settlers from 1804, when Meriwether Lewis and William Clark embarked on their voyage of discovery, to 1864, when the U.S. Army attacked both Confederate forces in the South and Native nations in the West.

Larry E. Morris recounts the nineteenth-century experience of these four tribes by detailing their interactions with four legendary survivors of a fight with the Arikaras in 1823. These renowned figures include the remarkable trailblazer blazer Jedediah Smith, the unparalleled interpreter Edward Rose, the premier guide and Indian agent Thomas Fitzpatrick, and the grizzly-bear-mauling survivor Hugh Glass. Their careers illuminate the fate of four Indian nations, revealing how—despite the best efforts of several explorers to treat the Indigenous peoples respectfully—the guns, furs, disease, and gold rushes of the interlopers put the Indians’ way of life, their lands, and their very lives at grave risk. The sixty-year period comes to a close when more than 150 Plains Indians, most of them women, children, and elderly, were ambushed and slaughtered by Colonel John Chivington’s Third Colorado Cavalry on the banks of Sand Creek.

Larry E. Morris is an independent writer and historian. He is the author of numerous books, including The Fate of the Corps: What Became of the Lewis and Clark Explorers After the Expedition, a History Book Club selection; The Perilous West: Seven Amazing Explorers and the Founding of the Oregon Trail; and In the Wake of Lewis and Clark: The Expedition and the Making of Antebellum America.

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Prologue
Chapter 1. “A Passage to India”
From Aristotle to Magellan
Chapter 2. “That Wretched Portion of Our Journey”
Meriwether Lewis and the Great Divide
Chapter 3. “He Draws a Line from His Heart to His Mouth”
Eagle Feather, Emissary of the Arikaras
Chapter 4. “Mr. Rose Came Running into Camp”
The Arikara War
Chapter 5. “Captain Smith Had Crossed the Mountains”
The Discovery and Rediscovery of South Pass
Chapter 6. “A Young Arapaho Indian Named Friday”
Encounters with Fitzpatrick and the Elusive Edward Rose
Chapter 7. “The Whirlwind Is Coming to Destroy My People!”
Indian Nations and the White Man’s Fatal Maladies
Chapter 8. “Major Fitzpatrick Was a Good Man”
Seeking the Road to Redemption
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	12.11.2025
Verlagsort	Lincoln
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	1-4962-3761-7 / 1496237617
ISBN-13	978-1-4962-3761-3 / 9781496237613
Zustand	Neuware