The first frontier
Subtitle: the forgotten history of struggle, savagery, and endurance in early America
By: Scott Weidensaul
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; Harper
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 474
ISBN-13: 9780151015153
Subjects: Race relations; Frontier and pioneer life; Indians of North America; Whites; Military History; Immigrants; Relations with Indians; Treatment of Indians; History
Description: Presents a history of the period during which the Eastern seaboard was a frontier between colonizing Europeans and Native Americans.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. "So Many Nations, People, and Tongues"; title: Mawooshen; title: Before Contact; title: Stumbling onto a Frontier; title: pt. 2. "Let Us Not Live to Bee Enslaved"; title: "Why Should You Be So Furious?"; title: Between Two Fires; title: "Our Enimies Are Exceedeing Cruell"; title: "Oppressions, Grievances & Provocacons"; title: pt. 3. "We That Came out of This Ground"; title: "One Head One Mouth, and One Heart"; title: The Long Peace Ends; title: War Chief, Peace Chief; title: Endings.