The Kickapoos: Lords of the Middle Border

A. M. Gibson

ISBN 10: 0806112646 / ISBN 13: 9780806112640

Published by University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK, 1963

About this Item

N/none, new pb, ix-xv, 387 pages. Color illustrated paper cover with black text on upper and spine, no chips, tears, bends or shelf wear. Interior pages are clean, bright, and unmarked. Binding is tight.

Seller Inventory # 009319

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Kickapoos: Lords of the Middle Border
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK
• Publication Date: 1963
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0806112646
• ISBN 13: 9780806112640
• Binding: Soft cover
• Illustrator: Photographs
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

About this title

Synopsis

The Kickapoo Indians resisted outsiders’ every attempt to settle their lands--until finally they were forced to remove west of the Mississippi River to the plains of the Southwest. There they continued to wage war and acted as traders for border captives and goods. In 1873 they reluctantly settled on a reservation in Indian Territory. There, corrupt politicians, land swindlers, gamblers, and whiskey peddlers preyed on the tribe. Not until the twentieth century did the Kickapoos received just treatment at the hands of the United States government.

About the Author

Arrell Morgan Gibson (1921–1987) was the George Lynn Cross Research Professor of History at the University of Oklahoma. He was the author of many books on western history, including The Chickasaws, The Life and Death of Colonel Albert Jennings Fountain, and Oklahoma: A History of Five Centuries, all published by the University of Oklahoma Press.