Before a shot was fired in the West, the Confederacy set out to win the slaveholding nations of Indian Territory to its cause. Abel reconstructs that diplomacy: the situation in the Indian country from 1830 to 1860, pressure from Texas and Arkansas, and the treaties that bound the tribes to the South, with the Fort Smith and Wichita Agency papers printed as appendices.
The opening volume of Abel’s trilogy, recovering what she called an omitted chapter in the diplomatic history of the Southern Confederacy. Download the free EPUB.