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For Trade and Treaty – Firearms of the American Indians 1600 – 1920
For Trade and Treaty by author Ryan R. Gale is the most comprehensive work on the subject of Native American firearms to date. Filled with hundreds of full color images of dozens of original northwest guns, trade fusils, and treaty guns, this book’s wide 11″ landscape format allows images up to 22″ across the gutter. This book also contains new research, numerous fur trade and government invoices, inventories and other firearm records never before published.
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For Trade and Treaty – Firearms of the American Indians 1600 – 1920
For thousands of years, countless American Indians lived off a land encompassing almost nineteen million square miles, completely unaware of the technology, politics and wars of the outside world. All this would change after Europeans arrived in the sixteenth century. Over the next three hundred years, French, Dutch, English, and American traders crossed virtually all of North America in search of furs and the Indians who could provide them. In exchange for furs, the traders offered steel knives and axes, copper kettles, wool blankets, firearms and gunpowder. Firearms quickly replaced the Indians’ ancient hunting tools; stone-headed spears, bows and arrows, enabling anyone with a few furs to trade to be a proficient hunter. Eventually, American settlers replaced fur traders and and trade ledgers turned into treaties. In a short time, the Indians’ domain shrank from an entire continent to a handful of reservations where firearms were replaced by spades and hunters turned into farmers. Follow this journey with a visual progression of the firearms used by the American Indians during this unique and sometimes tragic period in history. Learn how these arms were made, distributeed, used and modified using the fur traders’ and Indian agents’ own words and rare fur company and government records. “For Trade and Treaty” is a must have for any Indian firearm enthusiast, builder, collector and historian.
ISBN – 978-0-9765797-5-5
201 Pages
Softback
10.75″ x 8.5″
Track of the Wolf Inc., 2010