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Book Review
| White Man's Paper Trail: Grand Councils and Treaty-Making on the Central Plains. By Stan Hoig. (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2006. xvi + 245 pp. Illustrations, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95.)
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This is a study of negotiations by the Republic of Texas and the United States with tribes of the Central Plains for the purpose of purchasing land. This is familiar territory to Stan Hoig, who has written over a dozen books relating to the American West. Rarely does he break new ground, and this volume is no exception. Hoig's specialty is the carefully crafted synthesis. |
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