| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.2

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Book Review

The Wichita Indians: Traders of Texas and the Southern Plains, 1540–1845. By F. Todd Smith. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2000. xiv, 206 pp. $32.95, ISBN 0-89096-952-3.)

The Taovaya, Tawakoni, Iscani, Guchita, and Kichai, collectively known as the Wichita, were an important group of people who have been too long ignored. F. Todd Smith sets out to fill that historical void and create an account of their history. Smith has conducted extensive research in Spanish and Mexican documents to trace the history of the Wichita, from their meeting with Francisco Vásquez de Coronado in 1540 until the United States annexation of Texas in 1845. 1

Smith has brought together disparate accounts of the tribes who made up the Wichita and has painstakingly sorted them out and organized the information into a chronological narrative. His research is admirable, for he has done a fine job of creating order out of confusion. Prior to publication of Smith's book, material on the Wichita was scattered across a diverse collection of documents, and he has brought it all together. . . .

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