{"product_id":"journal-of-an-indian-trader-anthony-glass-and-the-texas-trading-frountier-1790-1810-9781585440160","title":"Journal of an Indian Trader: Anthony Glass and the Texas Trading Frountier, 1790-1810","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Dan L. Flores\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Texas A\u0026amp;M University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Texas A\u0026amp;M University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: United States - 19th Century\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA decade before the celebrated mountain men entered the Northern Plains and Rockies, some dozen little-known trading forays were launched into the plains of the Southwest. Anthony Glass led one of the most important. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 1808-1809, with a party of twelve hunter-traders, he acted as semi-official emissary of the U.S. government in the practically uncharted lands of the Taovaya-Wichita and Comanche Indians. His was the first party of whites ever to view the sixteen-hundred-pound meteorite venerated as a healing shrine by the Plains tribes. Alone among the early southwestern traders, Glass kept a lively journal detailing his route and experiences. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eForgotten for nearly two centuries, this journal appears here in its entirety with rich annotation and interpretation by editor Dan L. Flores. Flores offers a novel, sympathetic view of the Indian trader as a sometime instrument of Jeffersonian borderlands diplomacy, and he presents fresh data on the land and its inhabitants. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLandscape, photographs, historically important frontier maps, and contemporary paintings of the traders and the Indians, and their ways of life, further develop this tale of Anthony Glass, Indian trader.","brand":"Texas A\u0026M University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45411565830295,"sku":"9781585440160","price":1302.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781585440160.webp?v=1767444004","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/journal-of-an-indian-trader-anthony-glass-and-the-texas-trading-frountier-1790-1810-9781585440160","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}