The First Frontier
The Forgotten History of Struggle, Savagery, and Endurance in Early America
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012.
Format: Book
Description: xxi, 474 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Presents a history of the period during which the Eastern seaboard was a frontier between colonizing Europeans and Native Americans.
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.
Subjects:
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.
East (U.S.) -- History.
East (U.S.) -- Race relations -- History.
North America -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
North America -- History, Military.
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.
East (U.S.) -- History.
East (U.S.) -- Race relations -- History.
North America -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
North America -- History, Military.
ISBN:
9780151015153
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
HISTORY North Am. US Westward Wei | Sandhills Indoors | Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references and index.