Journal of an Indian Trader: Anthony Glass and the Texas Trading Frontier,1790-1810 **SIGNED**

Flores, Dan 1948-

ISBN 10: 1585440167 / ISBN 13: 9781585440160

Published by Texas A&M University Press, College Station TX, 1985

About this Item

The journal of Anthony Glass was written during his expedition of the Texas frontier during 1808-1809, and was masterfully edited by Dan Flores in 1985. Glass produced an animated journal recounting his experiences, while Flores offered scholarly interpretations and utterly thorough annotations. This softcover copy is in excellent condition, signed by Flores on the title page at the 2023 Tucson Book Festival. The book has a bright cover will be carefully wrapped and boxed for safe shipping.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Journal of an Indian Trader: Anthony Glass and the Texas Trading Frontier,1790-1810 **SIGNED**
• Publisher: Texas A&M University Press, College Station TX
• Publication Date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1585440167
• ISBN 13: 9781585440160
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

A decade before the celebrated mountain men entered the Northern Plains and Rockies, some dozen little-known trading forays were launched into the plains of the Southwest. Anthony Glass led one of the most important.

In 1808–1809, with a party of twelve hunter-traders, he acted as semi-official emissary of the U.S. government in the practically uncharted lands of the Taovaya-Wichita and Comanche Indians. His was the first party of whites ever to view the sixteen-hundred-pound meteorite venerated as a healing shrine by the Plains tribes. Alone among the early southwestern traders, Glass kept a lively journal detailing his route and experiences.

Forgotten for nearly two centuries, this journal appears here in its entirety with rich annotation and interpretation by editor Dan L. Flores. Flores offers a novel, sympathetic view of the Indian trader as a sometime instrument of Jeffersonian borderlands diplomacy, and he presents fresh data on the land and its inhabitants.

Landscape, photographs, historically important frontier maps, and contemporary paintings of the traders and the Indians, and their ways of life, further develop this tale of Anthony Glass, Indian trader.