"As his end notes demonstrate, all the evidence has been right there under our eyes for centuries, in expedition narratives, ship manifests, military correspondence and the testimonials of Euro-Americans who spent time as captives of American Indian tribes. It just required a prolific synthesizer who saw the big picture—that the gun frontier 'was a creation of Indian savvy and power, not white American Manifest Destiny.'"
Casey Sanchez in the Los Angeles Times reviews David Silverman's Thundersticks: Firearms and the Violent Transformation of Native America.
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