One Vast Winter Count: The Native American West Before Lewis and Clark

Colin G. Calloway

U of Nebraska Press, Jan 1, 2006 - History - 631 pages

This magnificent, sweeping work traces the histories of the Native peoples of the American West from their arrival thousands of years ago to the early years of the nineteenth century. Emphasizing conflict and change, One Vast Winter Count offers a new look at the early history of the region by blending ethnohistory, colonial history, and frontier history. Drawing on a wide range of oral and archival sources from across the West, Colin G. Calloway offers an unparalleled glimpse at the lives of generations of Native peoples in a western land soon to be overrun.

Contents

• Pioneers: 23
• Hunters and Hunted: 31
• Fishers and Foragers: 42
• People and Identities in Motion: 51
• Singing Up a New World: 65
• Becoming Corn People: 66
• First Farmers and Town Builders in the Southwest: 71
• Mississippian Corn Chiefdoms: 94
• Corn Towns on the Prairies: 102
• Corn at Contact: 111
• Invaders South and North 15001730: 115
• Sons of the Sun and People of the Earth: 117
• First Sons: 119
• Mexico Invades New Mexico: 130
• The Colonization and Missionization of New Mexico: 143
• Pueblos and Spaniards in a Wider Indian World: 152
• Rebellions and Reconquests: 163
• An Epidemic of Rebellions: 175
• The Reconquest of New Mex1co: 184
• After the Reconquest: 194
• Calumet and Fleurdelys: 211
• Pelts Plagues and Priests: 217
• Killing Fields and Middle Grounds: 223
• The Mississippi and Beyond: 241
• Ambivalent Allies: 261
• Winning and Losing in the West 17001800: 263
• The Coming of the Centaurs: 265
• All Change on the Southern Plains: 274
• Shifting Balances of Power in the Northwest: 291
• Corn Power to Horse Power on the Upper Missouri: 299
• People In Between and People on the Edge: 311
• The Bloody Edges of Empire: 312
• The Ohio Valley and a World War in Indian Country: 329
• War against Empire: 344
• Reverberations in the West: 354
• The Killing Years: 365
• War and Some Peace in the Provincias Internas: 374
• The World Rushed In: 393
• Smallpox Used Them Up: 413
• The Slave in the Chariot: 425
• Notes: 433
• Selected Bibliography: 567
• Index: 595

About the author

Colin G. Calloway is the Samson Occom Professor of Native American Studies, professor of history, and chair of the Native American studies program at Dartmouth College. He is the coeditor of Germans and Indians: Fantasies, Projections, Encounters (Nebraska 2002) and the author of many works, including New Worlds for All: Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of Early America.

Bibliographic information

• Title: One Vast Winter Count: The Native American West Before Lewis and Clark; History of the American West
• Author: Colin G. Calloway
• Edition: illustrated, reprint, annotated
• Publisher: U of Nebraska Press, 2006
• ISBN: 0803264658, 9780803264656
• Length: 631 pages
• Subjects: History / Native American; History / North America