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Indians, Alcohol & the Road to Taos & Santa Fe /

Santa Fe Trail Association Award of MeritIn the culture of the American West, images abound of Indians drunk on the white man's firewater, a historical stereotype William Unrau has explored in two previous books. His latest study focuses on how federally-developed roads from Missouri to norther...

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Auteur principal: Unrau, William E., 1929-2016
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Lawrence, KS : University Press of Kansas, 2013.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Résumé:Santa Fe Trail Association Award of MeritIn the culture of the American West, images abound of Indians drunk on the white man's firewater, a historical stereotype William Unrau has explored in two previous books. His latest study focuses on how federally-developed roads from Missouri to northern New Mexico facilitated the diffusion of both spirits and habits of over-drinking within Native American cultures. Unrau investigates how it came about that distilled alcohol, designated illegal under penalty of federal fines and imprisonment as a trade item for Indian people, was nevertheless easily obt.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (208 pages): illustrations, maps
ISBN:9780700623655