Bricklayers, Bronc Busters, and "Peddlers from the Spanish Country": Nuevomexicanos and the Paradox of Labor and Trade in the Great Plains, 1834–1884

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Great Plains Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI:10.1353/gpq.2022.0000

David C. Beyreis, T. M. Foster, John Beusterien, Sophie Farthing, M. Holt, Hana Waisserová, R. Russell, Sebastian Felix Braun, A. Mazurkiewicz, Stephanie A. Marcellus, Trevor J. Wideman, Yve Chavez, C. Finnegan, Kirsten Wolf, M. D'amore, J. Fikes, Pierre M. Atlas, J. Morsette, J. Guillory, James E. Mueller, Richard Hughes

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Abstract:During the mid-nineteenth century, Nuevomexicano workers and traders played a crucial but paradoxical role in Great Plains economic and political life. Expert artisans, superb livestock wranglers, and shrewd bargainers, they were essential to the solidification of fur trade infrastructure and trade along the Santa Fe Trail. Yet the same skills that made these men successful—especially their successful dealings with Native peoples—also made them targets of Anglo-American suspicion, fear, and resentment. The same entrepreneurs who valued Nuevomexicano labor and skill worried that these traders represented a threat to the United States' tenuous hold on the region. Between the tense years preceding the US-Mexican War and the end of the Red River War in 1875, territorial officials and military officers attempted to restrict the movement and activities of Nuevomexicano traders and hunters, with little success. Not until the final confinement of the Comanche and Kiowa to reservations in Indian Territory did commerce end and these men cease to be viewed as a potential threat to Anglo-American sovereignty in the Great Plains.

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瓦匠、野马克洛斯和“来自西班牙乡村的小贩”:1834-1884年大平原上的新墨西哥人和劳动与贸易的悖论

摘要:19世纪中期，新墨西哥工人和商人在大平原的经济和政治生活中扮演着重要而矛盾的角色。他们是技艺精湛的工匠、一流的畜牧师和精明的讨价还价者，他们对圣达菲小径沿线的毛皮贸易基础设施和贸易的巩固至关重要。然而，使这些人成功的技能——尤其是他们与土著人民的成功交往——也使他们成为英美人怀疑、恐惧和怨恨的目标。那些重视新墨西哥劳动力和技能的企业家担心，这些商人对美国在该地区的脆弱控制构成了威胁。在美墨战争前的紧张年代和1875年红河战争结束之间，领土官员和军官试图限制新墨西哥商人和猎人的行动和活动，但收效甚微。直到最后将科曼奇和基奥瓦人限制在印第安领土的保留区内，贸易才结束，这些人不再被视为对大平原上的盎格鲁-美国主权的潜在威胁。

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期刊介绍： In 1981, noted historian Frederick C. Luebke edited the first issue of Great Plains Quarterly. In his editorial introduction, he wrote The Center for Great Plains Studies has several purposes in publishing the Great Plains Quarterly. Its general purpose is to use this means to promote appreciation of the history and culture of the people of the Great Plains and to explore their contemporary social, economic, and political problems. The Center seeks further to stimulate research in the Great Plains region by providing a publishing outlet for scholars interested in the past, present, and future of the region."