Commerce of the Prairies (American Exploration and Travel Series)
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1974. Third Edition. Paperback. Written as a scrupulously accurate guidebook to the prairies and as an authoritative account of the early Santa Fe trade, Commerce of the Prairies has been a favorite of historians, ethnologists, naturalists, and collectors of Western Americana for generations. But Greggs masterpiece is not for specialists alone: its vivid descriptions of desert mirages, wagon caravans, Indian alarms and attacks, buffalo hunts, and other early Western phenomena will delight all who wish to know the country as it was before the great herds of buffalo were slaughtered and the roving Indians confined to reservations, before the landscape was transformed by barbed wire, domestic cattle, plowed fields, and modern highways. Paperback. Illustrated. 469pp., index. Full refund if not satisfied. Very Good +.
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Item #019578
ISBN: 0806110597
Price: $15.00