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

Weidensaul, Scott.

The first frontier : the forgotten history of struggle, savagery, and endurance in early America / Scott Weidensaul. - Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012. - xxi, 474 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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

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1600-1775


Frontier and pioneer life--East (U.S.)
Indians, Treatment of--History.--East (U.S.)
Whites--Relations with Indians--History.--East (U.S.)
Indians of North America--History.--East (U.S.)
Whites--History.--East (U.S.)
Immigrants--History.--East (U.S.)
Frontier and pioneer life.
Immigrants.
Indians of North America.
Indians, Treatment of.
Race relations.
Whites.
Whites--Relations with Indians.
Indianer.
Ethnische Beziehung.

Einwanderer.
Frontier and pioneer life--East (U.S.)
Native Americans--First contact with Europeans--History.--East (U.S.)
Native Americans--History.--East (U.S.)
Immigrants--History.--East (U.S.)


East (U.S.)--History.
East (U.S.)--Race relations--History.
North America--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
North America--History, Military.
North America.
United States, East.
Oststaaten (USA)
East (U.S.)--History.
East (U.S.)--Race relations--History.
North America--History--1600-1775, Colonial period.
North America--Military history.


Nonfiction.
History.
Military history.

F106 / .W45 2012

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