Stan Hoig
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Came Men on Horses
The Conquistador Expeditions of Francisco Vásquez de Coronado and Don Juan de Oñate
By Stan Hoig
University Press of Colorado
Guided by myths of golden cities and worldly rewards, policy makers, conquistador leaders, and expeditionary aspirants alike came to the new world in the sixteenth century and left it a changed land. Came Men on Horses follows two conquistadors--Francisco Vázquez de Coronado and Don Juan de Oñate--on their journey across the southwest.
White Man's Paper Trail
Grand Councils and Treaty-Making on the Central Plains
By Stan Hoig
University Press of Colorado
White Man's Paper Trail presents a poignant history of the U.S. government's attempts to peacefully negotiate treaties with tribes in Arkansas, the Dakotas, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado, and Wyoming.
Stan Hoig shows how treaty-making - once considered a viable method of peaceably resolving conflicts - degenerated into a deeply flawed system sullied by political deceptions and broken promises.
Stan Hoig shows how treaty-making - once considered a viable method of peaceably resolving conflicts - degenerated into a deeply flawed system sullied by political deceptions and broken promises.
White Man's Paper Trail illuminates the pivotal role of treaty negotiations in the buildup to the Plains Indian wars, in American Indians' loss of land and self-determination, and in Euro-American westward expansion.
A Travel Guide to the Plains Indian Wars
By Stan Hoig
University of New Mexico Press
This history and guidebook is composed of two parts: first, narratives of the Plains Indian conflicts and, second, directions to battle sites in Colorado, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming.
- Copyright year: 2006
Cowtown Wichita and the Wild, Wicked West
By Stan Hoig
University of New Mexico Press
A new look at the colorful history of the Peerless Princess of the Plains.
- Copyright year: 2007
The Chouteaus
First Family of the Fur Trade
By Stan Hoig
University of New Mexico Press
The story of the family that founded St. Louis and contributed to opening the West to American expansion.
- Copyright year: 2008
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