Wakara's America

The forgotten life and complex legacies of Wakara, the mighty, once-notorious Native leader whose battles and conquests shaped the American West The Native American leader Wakara (ca. 1815–1855) was among the most influential and feared men in the nineteenth-century American West, famed as a fierce warrior, a merciless trader of Indian slaves, and history’s greatest horse thief. In Wakara's America , historian Max Perry Mueller illuminates Wakara’s complex and sometimes paradoxical story, reveal