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Over The Santa Fe Trail To Mexico: The Diaries And Autobiography Of Dr. Rowland Willard, 1825–1828, Joy Poole
Over The Santa Fe Trail To Mexico: The Diaries And Autobiography Of Dr. Rowland Willard, 1825–1828, Joy Poole
The Confluence (2009-2020)
Rowland Willard’s journey to Mexico is more than a travel account. He gives us insights into the nature of medicine, the ways people interacted with the land, and the nature of a new emerging blended culture of Americans, Mexicans, and native peoples in what became the American southwest.
From The Editor, Jeffrey Smith
William Clark, Black Hawk, And The Militarization Of Indian Removal, Jeffrey Smith
William Clark, Black Hawk, And The Militarization Of Indian Removal, Jeffrey Smith
The Confluence (2009-2020)
What became known as Black Hawk’s War pointed to the problems with treaties signed between the United States government and native tribes. Misunderstandings, cultural differences, and changing demands for land contributed to Indian removal, which erupted into warfare between the Sauk and Fox tribes and the United States Army. Former explorer William Clark was in the center of it.
Fall-Winter 2016–2017, Full Issue
So Much To Learn: The Ozark National Scenic Riverways And Its Karst Landscape, Quinta Scott
So Much To Learn: The Ozark National Scenic Riverways And Its Karst Landscape, Quinta Scott
The Confluence (2009-2020)
Emerging from Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society, the Ozark National Scenic Riverway profoundly changed both the long-term landscape in the region and the ways people used that land, as Quinta Scott’s elaborately illustrated article suggests.
Manifesting Anti-Expansionist Anxiety At New York’S American Art-Union: A Sociopolitical Interpretation Of George Caleb Bingham’S 1845 Paintings, The Concealed Enemy And Fur Traders Descending The Missouri, Joan Stack
The Confluence (2009-2020)
George Caleb Bingham was one of the few artists with a political career as well, serving in the Missouri legislature. In this article, Joan Stack interrogates a body of Bingham’s work in the context of the social and political atmosphere of antebellum Missouri.
From The Editor, Jeffrey Smith
“Our Women And Children Cry For Food, And We Have No Food To Give Them”: The Environmental Dimensions Of Eastern Shoshone Dispossession, Adam R. Hodge
“Our Women And Children Cry For Food, And We Have No Food To Give Them”: The Environmental Dimensions Of Eastern Shoshone Dispossession, Adam R. Hodge
The Confluence (2009-2020)
No abstract provided.
Consequences Of Peaceful Actions: Political Decisions Of The Illinois Indians, 1778–1832, Gerald Rogers
Consequences Of Peaceful Actions: Political Decisions Of The Illinois Indians, 1778–1832, Gerald Rogers
The Confluence (2009-2020)
A series of political decisions led to the decimation of the Native American population in Illinois during its territorial and early statehood periods leading up to the final removal of tribes after Black Hawk’s War.
Spring/Summer 2016, Full Issue
A New Era In Their History: Isaac Mccoy’S Indian Canaan And The Baptist Triennial Convention, Daniel Williams
A New Era In Their History: Isaac Mccoy’S Indian Canaan And The Baptist Triennial Convention, Daniel Williams
The Confluence (2009-2020)
No abstract provided.