THE INDIAN TRADERS [SOLD]

THE INDIAN TRADERS

By Frank McNitt

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press, Norman

First Edition 1962, second printing August 1963. Hardcover, 394 pages, red cloth cover, no dust jacket.

Illustrated with photographs, maps and charts.  Excellent condition

From the PREFACE

“In the history of the Western frontier the Indian traders have received little attention.  When mentioned at all they usually have been presented as almost shadowy figures moving in a scene changing but unchanged and scarcely touched by their own actions.  We have no concept of Indian traders to match our nearly universal picture of the American cowboy, the cavalryman of Indian-fighting days, or the pioneer settlers who followed in their wake.  It is my purpose here to consider the traders first for their group entity, and next as individuals, and so to measure their worth and their contributions to the Indian tribes among whom they lived and to their country.”

CONTENTS

Part One

1.      The Spanish Traders, 1540-1846

2.      Bent’s Old Fort

3.      Trade Regulations

4.      Fort Defiance

5.      The Trading Posts

Part Two

6.      Hamblin and Lee

7.      The Contractors

8.      Solomon Bibo

9.      Thomas Keam: 1846-1872

10.   Hubbell and Keam: 1873-1877

11.   Army and Squaw Men

12.   Thomas Keam: 1880-1882

13.   Keam and the Prospectors

14.   Thomas Keam: 1884-1904

15.   Ganado

16.   Hubbell and Cotton

Part Three

17.   Wingate Valley and Zuni

18.   Cinega Amarilla, Crystal, Two Gray Hills

19.   The Arizona Traders

20.   Shipley and Perry

21.   The San Juan Valley

22.   Cabezon

Part Four

23.   Some Exceptional Cases

24.   Teec-nos-pos

25.   Beautiful Mountain