Great Plains Studies, Center for
Date of this Version
1992
Abstract
This paperback, with a new introduction, reprints Carriker's 1970 text chronicling Fort Supply from 1868 to 1894 as a hub for distributing both supplies and personnel throughout the southern Plains. Drawing from both personal and public documents, Carriker presents a journal-like account of western history in microcosm: the subduing and sequestering of Indians on reservations, the negotiations for herds' passage along the famous cattle trails, the maneuvering of boomers and others as they settled what had been Indian Territory. This useful reference, including little analysis or interpretation, provides an intimate glimpse of the life of this integral outpost on the plains frontier.
Comments
Published in Great Plains Quarterly 12:1 (Winter 1992). Copyright © 1992 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.