Calloway, Colin G. One vast winter count; the Native American West before Lewis and Clark.

CALLOWAY, Colin G. One vast winter count; the Native American West before Lewis and Clark. Univ. of Nebraska Press. 631p. illus. notes. bibliog. index. c2003. 0-8032-6465-8. $19.95. SA *

A much praised book, One Vast Winter Count is the first volume in Nebraska's new History of the American West series. Calloway, chair of the Native American Studies program at Dartmouth, rises to the difficult task of depicting the history of the people who arrived and settled on this continent from prehistoric times to the end of the 18th century. He is an amazingly fluid writer and holds the reader's interest through chapter after chapter of meticulously documented text. This book should be required reading for every advanced student and every teacher of American history. Patricia Moore, Chestnut Hill, MA

S--Recommended for senior high school students.

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