Professor Ann Hyde looksat the role of trade and mix-breeds in establishing trade networks in early America and the settling of the interior

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   Author Ann Hyde has written a clever historical book looking a the impact of trade and family in the settling of the frontier and the establishment of trade for-profit networks and intermarriage roles played in Americans early Westward expansion. her book called "Empires, Nations, and Family looks at the real westward movement of Europeans and how often they established themselves with certain native group retaining link s and networks in an ability to make money though role as intermediary of sale. This book covers the big events that most history books have covered in American west history and it pays special attention to three unique places including the Mormon settlement and interactions with Native Americans in Utah and the Best family in New Mexico and how eventually with American annexation the people developed a sense of hate for him and saw their trader of the past two decades as an agent for American conquest. The unique role of traders marrying into native American society and their children becoming tribal elites is the paradox of this book and Ms Hyde captures it in a well-written unique style on American Indian-European settlement history.

  Many native American history books seem to run the same particular theme and run into the same events as a avid reader of this subject will attest but her book is a interesting read examining a topic and role of trade that really opened lands and the interior and she vividly examines the crucial period where the fur trades profits collapse and that agricultural motivations became more and more reasoning for beginning the White man out West and the backlash and reaction from the tribes that could muster fleeting cavalries to oppose the US army.   her book also looks at the various forced migrations of other tribes aside from the five civilized tribes history textbooks focus mainly in and Ms Hyde particularly looks at Missouri and the Osage Indians in this outstanding informational book on Native Americans and trade structures. if you have read hundreds of books on the indigenous people of North America and this hasn't crossed your pass you are missing much and need to have this immediately on your to do list