Richard H Frost

Biographic Data

ID680869
NAMERichard H Frost
GIVEN NAMESRichard H
FAMILY NAMEFrost
SIGNATUREFROST R H
AFFILIATIONSColgate University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS12
TOTAL CITATIONS10
AUTHOR COUNT12
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1969
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2002
H-INDEX2

  • Rotting Face

    Richard H FrostARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2002

    In late spring 1837, the crew of a Missouri River steamboat carried smallpox to the Indian trading posts of the upper Missouri, and spread contagion to the Mandans, Arikaras, Hidatsas, Assiniboin, Blackfeet, and other Plains tribes. It was one of the worst Native American smallpox epidemics in history. It is also the most notorious, because of graphic descriptions from traders, because of popular attention given those tribes by early writers and …

  • The Coming of the Spirit of Pestilence

    Richard H FrostARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2001

    Robert Boyd. The Coming of the Spirit of Pestilence: Introduced Infectious Diseases and Population Decline among Northwest Coast Indians, 1774-1874. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999. xv + 403 pp. Ill. $50.00

  • White Man's Wicked Water

    Richard H FrostARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine1997

    Reviewed by: White Man’s Wicked Water: The Alcohol Trade and Prohibition in Indian Country, 1802–1892 Richard H. Frost William E. Unrau. White Man’s Wicked Water: The Alcohol Trade and Prohibition in Indian Country, 1802–1892. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1996. xi + 180 pp. Ill. $25.00. White Man’s Wicked Water is a valuable, judicious, and mercifully succinct contribution to the lengthy literature on Native American alcoholism. The auth…

  • The Lightning Stick

    Richard H FrostARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine1996

    Reviewed by: The Lightning Stick: Arrows, Wounds, and Indian Legends Richard H. Frost H. Henrietta Stockel. The Lightning Stick: Arrows, Wounds, and Indian Legends. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1995. xix + 131 pp. Ill. $24.95. Henrietta Stockel is one of the few current researchers in Native American medical history. She could use some help. The Lightning Stick, a slender work of just a hundred pages of text, is an idiosyncratic potpourri ab…

  • Deadly Medicine

    Richard H FrostARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine1996

    Reviewed by: Deadly Medicine: Indians and Alcohol in Early America Richard H. Frost Peter C. Mancall. Deadly Medicine: Indians and Alcohol in Early America. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995. xix + 268 pp. Ill. $29.95; £23.50; overseas $32.95. Indian addiction to the white man's alcohol has been a feature of Native American history since early contact times. Whites for centuries have described and deplored the effects of drinking among India…

  • Indian Population Decline

    Richard H FrostARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine1996

    Reviewed by: Indian Population Decline: The Missions of Northwestern New Spain, 1687–1840 Richard H. Frost Robert H. Jackson. Indian Population Decline: The Missions of Northwestern New Spain, 1687–1840. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1994. xii + 229 pp. Ill. $29.95. From the time of Sherburne F. Cook’s pioneering demographic studies of California Indian history in the 1930s to the present, scholars have turned repeatedly to the eff…

  • Pueblo Nations

    Richard H Frost, Joe S SandoARTICLEJournal of American History1993Cited by: 8

    Journal Article Pueblo Nations: Eight Centuries of Pueblo Indian History. By Joe S. Sando. (Santa Fe: Clear Light, 1992. xiv, 282 pp. Cloth, $22.95, ISBN 0-940666-17-0. Paper, $14.95, ISBN 0-94066607-3.) Get access Richard H. Frost Richard H. Frost Colgate University, Hamilton, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 3, December 1993, Pages 1046–1047, https://…

  • Menominee Drums

    Richard H Frost, Nicholas C PeroffARTICLEJournal of American History1983Cited by: 2

  • American Political Trials

    Richard H Frost, Michal R BelknapARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1982

    Preface Introduction: Political Trials in the American Past by Michal R. Belknap 'To Bee Rooted Out of Her Station': The Ordeal of Anne Hutchinson by Sandra F. VanBurkleo Politics, the Press, and the Law: The Trial of John Peter Zenger by Paul Finkelman Political Choice-Political Justice: The Case of the Pennsylvania Loyalists by Steven R. Boyd The Impeachment of Samuel Chase by Richard Ellis The Treason Trial of Castner Hanway by Paul Finkelman …

  • The Zunis of Cibola

    Richard H Frost, C Gregory CramptonARTICLEJournal of American History1979

    Journal Article The Zunis of Cibola. By C. Gregory Crampton. (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1977. 201 pp. Map, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $15.00.) Get access Richard H. Frost Richard H. Frost Colgate University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 66, Issue 1, June 1979, Pages 109–110, https://doi.org/10.2307/1894684 Published: 01 June 1979

  • The Mooney Case

    William Preston, Richard H FrostARTICLEJournal of American History1969

    Journal Article The Mooney Case. By Richard H. Frost. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1968. x + 563 pp., Map, illustrations, notes, and index. $12.50.) Get access William Preston William Preston Denison University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 56, Issue 1, June 1969, Pages 170–172, https://doi.org/10.2307/1902120 Published: 01 June 1969

  • The Mooney Case

    Open AccessAllen F Davis, Richard H FrostARTICLEAmerican Quarterly1969