Mobility of Native Americans
- 1 September 1971
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Journal of Economic History
- Vol. 31 (3) , 613-649
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022050700074350
Abstract
Alone woodsman erecting a log cabin, wagon trains curling across the prairies, fur trappers high in the mountains, Indian war parties, gold strikes, frontier marshalls and gunmen—of such stuff the legends of the American West have been formed and in the popular imagination they are the Westward Movement. Of course, serious historians have long recognized that this is merely a fascinating but veneer-like overlay which disguises a massive movement of people from East to West.Keywords
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