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THE FIRST FRONTIER: The Forgotten History... - Scott Weidensaul (2012 Hardcover)

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Narrative Type
Nonfiction
Original Language
English
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
ISBN
9780151015153

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0151015155
ISBN-13
9780151015153
eBay Product ID (ePID)
102851728

Product Key Features

Book Title
First Frontier : the Forgotten History of Struggle, Savagery, and Endurance in Early America
Number of Pages
496 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2012
Topic
United States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY), United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
History
Author
Scott Weidensaul
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.4 in
Item Weight
20.8 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2011-030600
Dewey Edition
23
TitleLeading
The
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With a novelist's flair, he conveys the experiences of ordinary people pitted against powerful and unpredictable nature. . . Mr. Weidensaul invites readers to imagine the bloody ground beneath modern America's apparently tame landscape. -The Wall Street Journal Exhaustively researched and entertainingly written. . . Credit Weidensaul with proving once again that history does not have to be dull in order to be comprehensive. It would be difficult to find a work of either fact or fiction more filled with excitement and suspense than The First Frontier. -The Seattle Times With a novelist's flair, he conveys the experiences of ordinary people pitted against powerful and unpredictable nature. . . Mr. Weidensaul invites readers to imagine the bloody ground beneath modern America's apparently tame landscape. -The Wall Street Journal, "With a novelist's flair, he conveys the experiences of ordinary people pitted against powerful and unpredictable nature. . . Mr. Weidensaul invites readers to imagine the bloody ground beneath modern America's apparently tame landscape." -The Wall Street Journal "Exhaustively researched and entertainingly written. . . Credit Weidensaul with proving once again that history does not have to be dull in order to be comprehensive. It would be difficult to find a work of either fact or fiction more filled with excitement and suspense than The First Frontier." -The Seattle Times "With a novelist's flair, he conveys the experiences of ordinary people pitted against powerful and unpredictable nature. . . Mr. Weidensaul invites readers to imagine the bloody ground beneath modern America's apparently tame landscape." -The Wall Street Journal, "With a novelist's flair, he conveys the experiences of ordinary people pitted against powerful and unpredictable nature. . . Mr. Weidensaul invites readers to imagine the bloody ground beneath modern America's apparently tame landscape." --The Wall Street Journal "Exhaustively researched and entertainingly written. . . Credit Weidensaul with proving once again that history does not have to be dull in order to be comprehensive. It would be difficult to find a work of either fact or fiction more filled with excitement and suspense than The First Frontier." --The Seattle Times "With a novelist's flair, he conveys the experiences of ordinary people pitted against powerful and unpredictable nature. . . Mr. Weidensaul invites readers to imagine the bloody ground beneath modern America's apparently tame landscape." --The Wall Street Journal, "With a novelist's flair, he conveys the experiences of ordinary people pitted against powerful and unpredictable nature. . . Mr. Weidensaul invites readers to imagine the bloody ground beneath modern America's apparently tame landscape." -The Wall Street Journal "Exhaustively researched and entertainingly written. . . Credit Weidensaul with proving once again that history does not have to be dull in order to be comprehensive. It would be difficult to find a work of either fact or fiction more filled with excitement and suspense than The First Frontier." -The Seattle Times, "With a novelist's flair, he conveys the experiences of ordinary people pitted against powerful and unpredictable nature. . . Mr. Weidensaul invites readers to imagine the bloody ground beneath modern America's apparently tame landscape." --The Wall Street Journal "Exhaustively researched and entertainingly written. . . Credit Weidensaul with proving once again that history does not have to be dull in order to be comprehensive. It would be difficult to find a work of either fact or fiction more filled with excitement and suspense than The First Frontier." --The Seattle Times "With a novelist's flair, he conveys the experiences of ordinary people pitted against powerful and unpredictable nature. . . Mr. Weidensaul invites readers to imagine the bloody ground beneath modern America's apparently tame landscape." --The Wall Street Journal --
Dewey Decimal
974
Table Of Content
Acknowledgments ix Author's Note x Introduction xi PART I "So Many Nations, People, and Tongues" I. Mawooshen3 2. Before Contact35 3. Stumbling onto a Frontier72 PART II "Let Us Not Live to Bee Enslaved" 4. "Why Should You Be So Furious?"115 5. Between Two Fries149 6. "Our Enemies Are Exceedeing Cruell"182 7. "Oppressions, Grievances & Provocacons"222 PART III "We That Came out of This Ground" 8. "One Head One Mouth, and One Heart"259 9. The Long Peace Ends298 10. War Chief, Peace Chief337 11. Endings376 Notes 389 Bibliography 430 Index 446
Synopsis
Frontier the word carries the inevitable scent of the West. But before Custer or Lewis and Clark, before the first Conestoga wagons rumbled across the Plains, it was the East that marked the frontier--the boundary between complex Native cultures and the first colonizing Europeans. Here is the older, wilder, darker history of a time when the land between the Atlantic and the Appalachians was contested ground--when radically different societies adopted and adapted the ways of the other, while struggling for control of what all considered to be their land. The First Frontier traces two and a half centuries of history through poignant, mostly unheralded personal stories--like that of a Harvard-educated Indian caught up in seventeenth-century civil warfare, a mixed-blood interpreter trying to straddle his white and Native heritage, and a Puritan woman wielding a scalping knife whose bloody deeds still resonate uneasily today. It is the first book in years to paint a sweeping picture of the Eastern frontier, combining vivid storytelling with the latest research to bring to life modern America's tumultuous, uncertain beginnings., An exploration some of the most turbulent, fascinating years in American history: the 16th century into the mid-18th century in eastern North America., Frontier : the word carries the inevitable scent of the West. But before Custer or Lewis and Clark, before the first Conestoga wagons rumbled across the Plains, it was the East that marked the frontier--the boundary between complex Native cultures and the first colonizing Europeans. Here is the older, wilder, darker history of a time when the land between the Atlantic and the Appalachians was contested ground--when radically different societies adopted and adapted the ways of the other, while struggling for control of what all considered to be their land. The First Frontier traces two and a half centuries of history through poignant, mostly unheralded personal stories--like that of a Harvard-educated Indian caught up in seventeenth-century civil warfare, a mixed-blood interpreter trying to straddle his white and Native heritage, and a Puritan woman wielding a scalping knife whose bloody deeds still resonate uneasily today. It is the first book in years to paint a sweeping picture of the Eastern frontier, combining vivid storytelling with the latest research to bring to life modern America's tumultuous, uncertain beginnings.
LC Classification Number
F106.W45 2011

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