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

Title:

ISBN:

9780151015153

Personal Author:

Weidensaul, Scott

Publication Information:

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012.

Physical Description:

xxi, 474 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Contents:

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.

Geographic Term:

East (U.S.) -- History

East (U.S.) -- Race relations -- History

North America -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775

North America -- History, Military.

Subject Term:

Frontier and pioneer life--East (U.S.)

Indians, Treatment of--East (U.S.) -- History

White people--East (U.S.) -- Relations with Indians -- History

Indians of North America--East (U.S.) -- History.

White people--East (U.S.) -- History

Immigrants--East (U.S.) -- History