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100 1 $aWest, Elliott,$d1945-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88199695
245 14 $aThe contested plains :$bIndians, goldseekers, and the rush to Colorado /$cElliott West.
260 $aLawrence, KS :$bUniversity Press of Kansas,$c1998.
263 $a9804
300 $axxiv, 422 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $aThe Contested Plains recounts the rise of the Native American horse culture, white Americans' discovery and pursuit of gold in the Rocky Mountains, and the wrenching changes and bitter conflicts that ensued. After centuries of many peoples fashioning their own cultures on the plains, the Cheyenne and other tribes found in the horse the power to create a heroic way of life that dominated one of the world's great grasslands.
520 8 $aThen the discovery of gold challenged that way of life and led finally to the infamous massacre at Sand Creek and the Indian Wars of the late 1860s.
520 8 $aIlluminating both the ancient and more recent history of the plains and eastern Rocky Mountains, West creates a tapestry interlaced with environmental, social, and military history. He treats the "frontier" not as a morally loaded term, either in the traditional celebratory sense or the more recent critical judgment, but as a powerfully unsettling process that shattered an old world.
520 8 $aHe shows how Indians, goldseekers, haulers, merchants, ranchers, and farmers all contributed to and in turn were consumed by this process, even as the plains themselves were utterly transformed by the clash of cultures and competing visions.
651 0 $aGreat Plains$xHistory.
651 0 $aColorado$xGold discoveries.
650 0 $aIndians of North America$zGreat Plains$xHistory.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008123232
650 0 $aHuman ecology$zGreat Plains.
852 00 $bglx$hF591$i.W4527 1998