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This pioneering work is about the traders trappers and explorers in the vastarea that would become Oklahoma Texas Missouri Arkansas New Mexico Kansasand Colorado. Foreman describes the early explorations of the French andSpanish in the Louisiana Territory and often focuses on the junction of theVerdigris Grand and Arkansas rivers known as the Three Forks a trading andmilitary center from which the conquest of a large part of the AmericanSouthwest was achieved. Viewed in historical perspective are the businessenterprises of A. P. Chouteau and others treaties with the Indians and warfarebetween the Cherokees and Osage massacres and disease epidemics garrison lifeat Fort Gibson and the visits of writer Washington Irving and painter GeorgeCatlin expeditions into the Southwest led by Colonel Henry Dodge CaptainBenjamin de Bonneville and others Sam Houstons sojourn in Indian countryand warfare on the Texas border. «
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