January 2024 MBR The American History Shelf

The American History Shelf

Red Blood and the Indian Trader
Marilyn Dear Nelson and Chris Nelson
TwoDot/Globe Pequot
https://www.globepequot.com
9781493073900, $24.95 PB, $17.99 Kindle, 406pp

https://www.amazon.com/Red-Cloud-Indian-Trader-Friendship/dp/1493073907

Red Blood and the Indian Trader: The Remarkable Friendship of the Sioux Chief and JW Dear in the Last Days of the Frontier should reside in any American history collection as a unique and personal survey of Civil War years and beyond. JW Dear not only fought in the war as a Confederate soldier, but then journeyed West, where he was one of the last fur traders and the longest-serving government-appointed Indian Trader to Red Cloud's Sioux. Beset upon by misfortune and bad circumstances again and again, JW participated in one of the most turbulent periods in American history in the West. His poignant search for a better life amidst the postwar tumult creates a riveting, personal history of the times that is hard to put down and infinitely memorable.

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