Magnificent, sweeping account that traces the histories of the Native peoples of the American West from their arrival thousands of years ago to the early years of the nineteenth century
Colin G. Calloway is the Samson Occom Professor of Native American Studies, professor of history, and chair of the Native American studies program at Dartmouth College. He is the coeditor of Germans and Indians: Fantasies, Projections, Encounters (Nebraska 2002) and the author of many works, including New Worlds for All: Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of Early America.
"The first volume in the publisher's new series History of the American West, this clearly written, monumental history of Native Americans and of white-Indian interaction in the trans-Appalachian West up to the beginning of the nineteenth century synthesizes a vast body of archaeological, ethnographic, and historical scholarship. It will long remain the authoritative treatment of its subject." The September 2003 issue of The Atlantic Monthly "Author of First Peoples and a distinguished Dartmouth historian, Calloway concentrates on the Indian experience from the Appalachians to the Pacific, in a time frame from prehistory to the 18th century. The scope is staggering, but Calloway masters it, demonstrating a remarkable command of a broad spectrum of historical, ethnographic and archaeological sources including printed material and oral traditions... One Vast Winter Count is both a major work in its own right and a magnificent first volume in Nebraska's new History of the American West series." The September 1, 2003, issue of Publishers Weekly "Calloway draws on tribal histories, anthropology, and archaeology, as well as traditional historical sources, to present this useful and insightful overview of vibrant nations actively charting their futures in the time of great change and tremendous challenge before Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery set forth in 1803... Calloway's balanced treatment of a topic so easily given to polemics is welcome indeed. Highly recommended for academic and public libraries." The September 1, 2003, issue of Library Journal the inaugural book in our History of the AmericanWest series, appears on the Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2003 Nonfiction list, along with only two other university press titles. The following description appears in the November 17, 2003 piece: "The scope of this overview of Native American societies - from the Appalachians to the Pacific, in a time frame from prehistory to the 18th century - is staggering, but Calloway (First Peoples) masters it, demonstrating remarkable command of a broad spectrum of historical, ethnographic and archeological sources." Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2003 Nonfiction lisT "A splendid overview of the Native American West to the end of the eighteenth century." New York Review of Books, July 2004
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