The First Frontier: The Forgotten History of Struggle, Savagery, and Endurance in Early America
- ISBN-10
- 0151015155
- ISBN-13
- 9780151015153
- Series
- The First Frontier
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 474
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Author
- Scott Weidensaul
Description
Presents a history of the period during which the Eastern seaboard was a frontier between colonizing Europeans and Native Americans.
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