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The first frontier : the forgotten history of struggle, savagery, and endurance in early America / Scott Weidensaul.

Weidensaul, Scott. (Author).

Summary:

Presents a history of the period during which the Eastern seaboard was a frontier between colonizing Europeans and Native Americans.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0151015155
  • ISBN: 9780151015153
  • Physical Description: xxi, 474 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Pt. 1. "So Many Nations, People, and Tongues" -- Mawooshen -- Before Contact -- Stumbling onto a Frontier -- pt. 2. "Let Us Not Live to Bee Enslaved" -- "Why Should You Be So Furious?" -- Between Two Fires -- "Our Enimies Are Exceedeing Cruell" -- "Oppressions, Grievances & Provocacons" -- pt. 3. "We That Came out of This Ground" -- "One Head One Mouth, and One Heart" -- The Long Peace Ends -- War Chief, Peace Chief -- Endings.
Subject: Frontier and pioneer life > East (U.S.)
Immigrants > East (U.S.) > History.
Indians of North America > East (U.S.) > History.
Indians, Treatment of > East (U.S.) > History.
White people > East (U.S.) > History.
White people > East (U.S.) > Relations with Indians > History.
East (U.S.) > History.
East (U.S.) > Race relations > History.
North America > History, Military.
North America > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

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