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

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
ISBN: 0151015155
Physical Description: print
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.