The Indian world of George Washington : the first President, the first Americans, and the birth of the nation

Author

Colin G Calloway

Call Number

• 323.1197 C163 (CEN, WSQ)

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Publication Information

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]

Physical Description

xviii, 621 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm

Summary

"An authoritative, sweeping, and fresh new biography of the nation's first president, Colin G. Calloway's book reveals fully the dimensions and depths of George Washington's relations with the First Americans."--Provided by publisher.

Contents

• Learning curves
• Virginia's Indian country
• The Ohio Company and the Ohio Country
• Into Tanaghrisson's world
• Tanaghrisson's war
• Braddock and the limits of empire
• Frontier defense and a Cherokee alliance
• Frontier advance and a Cherokee war
• The other revolution
• Confronting the Indian boundary
• "A good deal of land."
• The question of Indian allies
• Town destroyer
• Killing Crawford
• Building a nation on Indian land
• The first President and the first Americans
• An Indian policy for the new nation
• Courting McGillivray
• The greatest Indian victory
• Philadelphia Indian diplomacy
• Achieving empire
• Transforming Indian lives
• A death and a non-death.