Research Catalog

Title

• Among the Indians; eight years in the Far West, 1858-1866. Edited by Milo Milton Quaife.

Author

Boller, Henry A.

Publication

Chicago, Lakeside Press, 1959.

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Additional Authors

Quaife, Milo Milton, 1880-1959

Description

xxxix, 461 p. illus., port., fold. map.; 18 cm.

Summary

"The narrative ... deals with events almost a century later [than no. 56], changes the scene to the Upper Missouri [River area] in fur-trading days, and presents one of the most interesting and sympathetic accounts of the Indian and his life that we have ever read."--Publisher's preface, p. vi.

Series Statement

• The Lakeside classics ; 57

Uniform Title

Lakeside classics 57.

Subject

• Frontier and pioneer life > West (U.S.)
• Indians of North America > Northwestern States
• Montana > Description and travel
• Salt Lake City (Utah) > Description and travel
• West (U.S.) > Description and travel

Note

• Includes a facsim. of the t.-p. of the original ed. (Philadelphia, 1868).

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliographical footnotes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Historical introduction -- Preface -- Fur trade and navigation on the Upper Missouri -- From St. Louis to Fort Clark -- To the Yellowstone and back -- A day in an Indian village -- Nightfall and repose -- The trading post and a buffalo hunt -- A raid and a medicine man -- A buffalo hunt that failed -- The Mandans make medicine -- Another false alarm -- A trading excursion -- Return to Fort Atkinson -- Goose medicine and visitors -- A friendly visit -- Removal to winter quarters -- Building the winter quarters -- Winter travel and recreation -- Winter time activities at Fort Atkinson -- Making buffalo-medicine -- A mid-winter buffalo hunt -- Smallpox ravages and Indian history -- A tragedy and a feast -- Indian ideas and winter journeys -- A Sioux raid -- Leaving the winter camp -- Springtime and hostile raids -- Warfare and the Calumet dance -- Military defeat and Sioux visitors -- The revenge of Pierre Garreau -- Indian chatter and friendly Crows -- A musician and a ride for life -- Arrival of the steamboats -- A quarrel over prices -- A hazardous voyage -- The Tobacco Garden Massacre -- Life at Fort Union in 1863 -- A surprise attack -- Alder Gulch and vigilante rule -- Gentiles and Mormons -- Mormon prosperity and sermons -- Mormonism and stage travel -- Change and farewell -- The Indian question.

LCCN

^^^60002275^

OCLC

1138744

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library