Bøger af Grant Foreman

Grant Foreman provides an account of Mormon missionaries who traveled into Indian Territory before the Civil War. Henry W. Miller and other elders of the Church left Salt Lake City May 7, 1855, and going by way of Fort Leavenworth and Fort Scott, arrived in the Indian Territory for the purpose of establishing missions in the Cherokee and Creek Nations.

Additional Editors Harry Campbell And James W. Moffitt. Contents Include Governor Robert Maxwell Harris By John Bartlett Meserve; Beginning Of Quaker Administration Of Indian Affairs In Oklahoma By Aubrey L. Steele; Southwestern Oil Boom Towns By Gerald Forbes; The Civil War In The Indian Territory 1861, Continued, By Dean Trickett; Indian International Fair By Ella Robinson; Negotiations Leading To The Chickasaw-Choctaw Agreement, January 17, 1837 Edited By Gaston Litton; Diary Of A Missionary To The Choctaws Edited By Anna Lewis.

Describes the early explorations of the French and Spanish in the Louisiana Territory and often focuses on the junction of the Verdigris, Grand, and Arkansas rivers, known as the Three Forks, a trading and military center from which the conquest of a large part of the American Southwest was achieved.