num_pages: 352
description: [1813 – 1836] Branded "White Savages" by Ben Franklin, the Scotch-Irish outcasts become America's warriors and trailblazers. In 1813, General Andrew Jackson is shot down in a Tennessee gunfight with two of his officers. Enraged by the Creek Indians' massacre of men, women and children at Fort Mims, Alabama, Jackson is tied on his horse and rides south. Sam Houston, Davy Crockett and Joe Walker fight in Alabama's 1814 Creek War. The Santa Fe, Old Spanish and California Emigrant Trails are blazed by Walker, Ewing Young and Kit Carson to open the West. Houston, Crockett and others fight for Texas's Independence. Dr. Fred Gowans of Brigham Young University opined, "TRAILS is entertaining, cleverly written and historically accurate; it captures the excitement of the Scotch-Irish experience in the American West." John T. Powell, Museum Director of Alabama's Jefferson Davis College, wrote, "TRAILS is excellent, lively, historically accurate and well written." TRAILS was considered for The Pulitzer Prize in U.S. History and the Bancroft History Award. 352 Pages; 16 Pinpoint action Maps; 11 Black &amp; White Portraits; 169 Ref. Biblio; 8 Page Index of 326 Persons with Birthplace &amp; Birthdate of Central Figures, 25 Tribes &amp; Union Admission Dates of Sates.
language: English
title: Trails of the White Savages
titlecomplete: Trails of the White Savages (History As It Happens)
publisher: Photosensitive