| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 38.2

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| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 38.2 | The History Cooperative

*Indians and Emigrants: Encounters on the Overland Trails*. By Michael L. Tate. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2006. xxiv + 328 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.)
Since 1979, the standard, even classic, history of overland migration has been John D. Unrah, Jr.'s The Plains Across. Michael Tate draws heavily on Unrah but does not aspire to compete with him. Unrah told the whole story. Tate focuses on one of the most important aspects of the story: the relations between overlanders and the Indians whose ranges the Oregon and California trails traversed. This part of the story takes on large significance not only because of its intrinsic value, but also because the image in the popular mind remains one of pioneers defending their circled wagons against fierce savages bent on massacre.	1
Digging deeply into diaries and other contemporary accounts, Tate demonstrates the falsity of the image. Not only did such encounters rarely happen, but Indians and emigrants related peacefully far more often than antagonistically.	. . .

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