Kickapoos: Lords of the Middle Border

by Arrell M. Gibson

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780806112640
Publisher:	University of Oklahoma Press
Publication date:	01/01/1976
Series:	Civilization of the American Indian Series , #70
Pages:	420
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.98(d)

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.