| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.5

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.5 | The History Cooperative

Michael L. Tate. Indians and Emigrants: Encounters on the Overland Trails. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. 2006. Pp. xxiv, 328. $29.95.
In 1979, scholars of the overland trail migration in the mid-nineteenth-century United States were treated to the meticulous posthumous publication of The Plains Across: The Overland Emigrants and the Transmississippi West, 1840–1860 by John D. Unruh, Jr. Since then, other historians have expanded on several themes touched on by Unruh, including women's experiences of trail life, gender roles, family life, U.S. Army forts along the various trails, and Indian-white interactions, among others. Michael L. Tate's new book synthesizes much of this previous scholarship and adds insightful analyses of published and manuscript trail diaries and ethnohistorical methodologies to demonstrate the complexities of the Indian and emigrant experiences of each other.	1
Limiting his study to the familiar California-Oregon Trail, Tate uses a topical approach to examine various "encounters" between Indians and emigrants. Each chapter draws on examples from the 1840s through the 1860s. Based on extensive research in published trail guides, newspaper accounts, novels, word-of-mouth trail stories, and other sources of contemporary information, Tate informs us that emigrants began their journeys filled with stereotypes and misconceptions about Indians (the "savage" versus "nature's noblemen").	. . .

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