David D Smits

Biographic Data

ID685968
NAMEDavid D Smits
GIVEN NAMESDavid D
FAMILY NAMESmits
SIGNATURESMITS D D
AFFILIATIONSCollege of New Jersey
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS9
AUTHOR COUNT6
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1982
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1998
H-INDEX1

  • Fighting Fire with Fire: The Frontier Army's Use of Indian Scouts and Allies in the Trans-Mississippi Campaigns, 1860-1890

    Open AccessDavid D SmitsARTICLEAmerican Indian Culture and…1998

    Among soldiers in America’s late-nineteenth-century frontier army there was virtually universal agreement that scouts were vital to the success of campaigns in Indian country. Colonel Richard Irving Dodge, a veteran with thirty-three years’ experience on the frontier, publicly acknowledged the army’s dependence on reliable scouts. In his 1882 book Our Wild Indians, which General William T. Sherman recommended to the military student, Dodge expres…

  • More on the Army and the Buffalo: The Author's Reply

    David D SmitsARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly1995Cited by: 1

    Journal Article More on the Army and the Buffalo: The Author's Reply Get access David D. Smits David D. Smits professor of history Trenton State College, Trenton, New Jersey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 26, Issue 2, Summer 1995, Pages 203–208, https://doi.org/10.2307/970190 Published: 01 May 1995

  • The Frontier Army and the Destruction of the Buffalo: 1865-1883

    David D SmitsARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly1994Cited by: 8

    The Frontier Army and the Destruction of the Buffalo: 1865–1883 Get access David D. Smits David D. Smits professor of history Trenton State College, Trenton, New Jersey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 25, Issue 3, Autumn 1994, Pages 312–338, https://doi.org/10.2307/971110 Published: 01 August 1994

  • Squaw Men," "Half-Breeds," and Amalgamators: Late Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Attitudes Toward Indian-White Race-Mixing

    Open AccessDavid D SmitsARTICLEAmerican Indian Culture and…1991

    Indian-white biological amalgamation, whether in or out of wedlock, is a subject well calculated to evoke spirited conceptions and feelings; certainly, it impinges upon the research of those who would probe more deeply into the labyrinth of Indian-white interaction in late nineteenth-century America. The tapestry of post-Civil War America is woven with many-hued Indian and white attitudes toward race-mixing. To unravel, illuminate, and interpret …

  • We Are Not to Grow Wild: Seventeenth-Century New Englans's Repudiation of Anglo-Indian Intermarriage

    Open AccessDavid D SmitsARTICLEAmerican Indian Culture and…1987

    To the student of Anglo-Indian relations in seventeenth-century New England the absence of interracial marriage is a subject whose depth and breadth remain largely unexplored. The familial nature of English immigration and the relatively balanced sex ratio in the emergent Bible commonwealths have long been offered as explanations for the New Englanders' failure to inter-marry with the American Indians. Propounded too, are the differences of relig…

  • "The "Squaw Drudge: A Prime Index of Savagism

    David D SmitsARTICLEEthnohistory1982

    This article describes and analyzes white views of Indian women as overworked and exploited by indolent Indian men. This image of Indian squaw drudgery and carefree male idleness, present since initial contact and still prevalent in the nineteenth century, was grounded on misunderstanding, ethnocentrism as well as the determination to rationalize white hegemony in America. Nevertheless, this distortion was employed as proof of Indian savagism eve…