Wakara's America : the life and legacy of a Native founder of the American West / Max Perry Mueller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mueller, Max Perry, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ute Indians--Kings and rulers--Biography.

Ute Indians.

Ute Indians--History.

Indian Latter Day Saints--Biography.

Indian Latter Day Saints.

Race relations--Religious aspects--Latter Day Saint churches.

Race relations.

Race relations--Religious aspects.

Ute Indians--Kings and rulers.

Wakara, Ute Chief, 1808?-1855.

Wakara.

West (U.S.)--19th century.

West (U.S.).

Utah--19th century.

Utah.

West United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Biographies

Informational works.

Physical Description:

xvii, 474 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Life and legacy of a Native founder of the American West

Place of Publication:

New York : Basic Books, 2025.

Summary:

"The Native American leader Wakara (ca. 1815-1855) was among the most influential and feared men in the nineteenth-century American West, famed as a fierce warrior, a merciless trader of Indian slaves, and history's greatest horse thief. In Wakara's America, historian Max Perry Mueller illuminates Wakara's complex and sometimes paradoxical story, revealing a man who both helped build the settler American West and defended Native sovereignty. Wakara was baptized as a Mormon and allied with Mormon settlers against other Indians to seize large parts of modern-day Utah. Yet a pan-tribal uprising against the Mormons that now bears Wakara's name stalled and even temporarily reversed colonial expansion. Through diplomacy and through violence, Wakara oversaw the establishment of settlements, built new trade routes, and helped create the boundaries that still define the region. Drawing together deep archival research with Native oral histories, archaeology, geology, and ecology, Wakara's America offers an innovative new vision of the history of the American West with Native people at its center. It serves as a powerful testament to Wakara's legacy, which endures in his story, in his tribal descendants, and in their stewardship of their ancestral lands today"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Wakara's burial

Wakara's fish

Wakara's horse

Wakara's slave

Brigham's war

Wakara's skull.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version Mueller, Max Perry Wakara's America

ISBN:

9781541602595

1541602595

OCLC:

1504626523

Publisher Number:

90103151768

CIPO000289457