| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.3

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Book Review

From Dominance to Disappearance: The Indians of Texas and the Near Southwest, 1786–1859. By F. Todd Smith. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. xviii, 314 pp. $59.95, ISBN 0-8032-4313-8.)
The historiographic terrain of the later near Southwest (the Louisiana-Texas frontier zone) has resembled the "neutral ground" once established in that region. Scholars have ventured through from different directions, blazing paths and making trade, but control of the territory by anyone has been delayed. With From Dominance to Disappearance, F. Todd Smith provides the total narrative.	1
Smith's explicit goal is to write a sequel to Elizabeth A. H. John's monumental Storms Brewed in Other Men's Worlds (1975), which mainly treats Spanish-Indian relations in New Mexico and Texas from 1540 to 1795. Appropriate to the era he is studying, Smith concentrates east of the High Plains. He capably handles the requisite manuscript sources, such as those from the Béxar Archives and Bureau of Indian Affairs letters, and draws on several recent books about the political history of the Texas tribes, including three of his own on the Caddos and Wichitas.	. . .

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