Parading Through History. The Making Of The Crow Nation In America, 1805-1935

FREDERICK E. HOXIE

Publication: Cambridge University Press, 1995, New York

First edition. 8vo. Two-tone paper over boards, titles stamped in silver on the spine, vii [blank], 395 pp., prologue, illustrated, map, sources, acknowledgments, index. This volume provides a history of the Crow Indians that demonstrates the link between their nineteenth-century nomadic life and their modern existence. Beginning with the first sustained encounters between the Crow and Americans in the early nineteenth century, Hoxie follows the transformation of Crow society through the fur trade, westward migration, military conflict, treaty negotiations, the disappearance of the buffalo, and the establishment and reduction of the Crow reservation. Fine, bright copy in dust jacket with minor wear to the spine ends and corners.