The Iron Horse in Indian Country: Native Americans and Railroads in the US West

The Iron Horse in Indian Country examines the relationships between Indigenous peoples and railroads that unfolded in the American West during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Historians have long pondered the railroad's profound and far-reaching role in transforming the United States' economic, political, social, and physical landscapes. The Iron Horse in Indian Country de-centers and reframes this scholarship by spotlighting both the inner workings of railroad colonialism and ...