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Title: Commerce of the Prairies; or, The journal of a Santa Fe trader, during eight expeditions across the great western prairies, and a residence of nearly nine years in northern Mexico
Year: 1850 (1850s)
Authors: Gregg, Josiah, 1806-1850
Subjects: Indians of North America -- West (U.S.) Southwest, New New Mexico Mexico -- Description and travel Santa Fe National Historic Trail
Publisher: Philadelphia, J.W, Moore
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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riers—Arms of the Indians—Bow and Ar-rows, etc.—Hunting—Dancing—Language of Signs—Tel-egraphs—Wigwams or Lodges—Pack-dogs—Coilumcs— Vlll CONTENTS. PagaPainting, Tattooing, etc.—Indian Dandies—Manufac-tures, and Dressing the Buffalo Rug—Indian Diet, Fast-ing, etc.—Primitive Thomsonians—Their domestic Ani-mals, the Dog and the Horse—Wampum—Their Chro-nology, ...... 276 CHAPTER XV. INDIANS OF THE PRAIRIES. Intermediate Tribes—Their Wigwams and their HuntingExcursions—Dress and Cut of their Hair—The Pawnees—The Osages—Their Roguery—Matrimonial Customs—Accomplished Mourners—Their Superstitions—TheIndian Figure—The Pawnee Picts—Wild Tribes—Census—The Comanches—Their Range—Their Sobri-ety—Their Chiefs, etc.—Female Chastity—ComancheMarriage—Costumes—Horsemanship—Comanche War-fare—Predatory Forays—Martial Ceremonies—Treat-ment of Captives—Burial and Religious Rites, . 299 MAP OP THE INTERIOR OF NORTHERN MEXICO.
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COMMERCE OF THE PRAIRIES. CHAPTER I. A Return to Prairie Life—Abandonment of the regular Route—The Start—A Suicide—Arrest of a Mulatto for Debt-Cherokee Bankrupt Law—Chuly, the Creek Indian—TheMuster and the Introduction—An Olla Podrida—Adven-ture of a Down-Easter—Arrival of U. S. Dragoons—CampHolmes, and the Road—A Visit from a Party of Comanches— Tabba-quena, a noted Chief—His extraordinary Geographi- • cal Talent—Indians set out for the Capitan Grande, and wethrough an Unexplored Region—Rejoined by Tabba-quenaand his suite—Spring Valley—The Buffalo Fever—TheChase—A Green-horn Scamper—Prairie Fuel. An unconquerable propensity to return toprairie life inclined me to embark in a freshenterprise. The blockade of the Mexicanports by the French also offered strong in-ducements for undertaking such an expeditionin the spring of 1839; for as Chiliuahua issupplied principally through the sea-ports, itwas now evident that the place nmst be suf-fering

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