Red Gentlemen and White Savages: Indians, Federalists, and the Search for Order on the American Frontier (Jeffersonian America)
"Anyone who thinks that the American Revolution came to a military conclusion at Yorktown must now consider the continuing pattern of military, diplomatic, and cultural encounters that David Nichols chronicles so thoroughly in this fresh and engaging book. With an appreciation of complexity, but also with great clarity, he shows us how the American Revolution never really ended in the frontier regions of North America, at least not when the 'rest' of the Revolution did. In doing so, he challenges us to locate the Revolution in a much larger chronological and cultural context and, above all, to see it not just as a two-sided conflict between the Crown and the colonies, but as a multi-sided series of struggles that enveloped Native Americans and Euro-Americans long after the formal treaty in 1783. Nowhere is that large historical landscape displayed more comprehensively than here in Nichols's work." - Gregory Nobles, Georgia Institute of Technology, author of American Frontiers: Cultural Encounters and Continental Conquest"Red Gentlemen and White Savages is clearly and cogently written, well organized, and supported by ample research and wide reading in the relevant secondary literature. It is an original and substantial contribution to work on the Federalists and Indians, and the best book on this subject to date." - Alan Taylor, University of California, Davis, author of The Divided Ground: Indians, Settlers, and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution"