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Graybill, Andrew R. – Great Plains Quarterly, 2004
During the 1840s and 1850s, more than 300,000 traders and overland emigrants followed the Platte and Arkansas rivers westward across the Central Plains, the winter habitat of the bison. By the mid-1870s indigenous peoples at both ends of the grasslands, in places such as the Texas Panhandle and the upper Missouri River valley, fiercely defended…
Descriptors: American Indians, American Indian History, Foreign Countries, Police