There followed an extraordinary series of what Graffenried characterized as “trials,” argued before elders, including the Tuscarora teethha known as Hancock. “There came ... a general complaint, that they, the Indians, had been very ...
Jackson was able to get the passengers and their luggage ashore safely and they were taken to Kavieng . The tide was running out and the local villagers and plantation workers gathered on the beach with the intention of securing the ...
Presents a history of the period during which the Eastern seaboard was a frontier between colonizing Europeans and Native Americans.
A vivid recreation of the varied ways in which colonists lived.
... dispatched Lieutenant Grant and Assistant Surgeon Bush with a squad to surprise the Darug at daybreak. ... Very possibly, he was aware that he would be a marked man ifBidgee Bidgee, Harry and CreekJemmy told the Darug who had led ...
Coleman delves into the minute details of every day life of the early settlers.
The First Frontier: The Indian Wars and America's Origins, 1607-1776