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President Washington's Indian War : the struggle for the Old Northwest, 1790-1795

Call Number

  • 977.02 S9799 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Norman ; London : University of Oklahoma Press, [1993], c1985.

Physical Description

xv, 400 pages : maps, portraits ; 24 cm

Contents

  • River of many white caps
  • Seeds of war
  • The lion in winter
  • Nothing but the soil they live on
  • Frontier justice
  • By act of Congress
  • The course of empire
  • They must and will have our country
  • This is the road to Hell
  • An eagle untethered
  • Forth into the wilderness
  • They fought and died hard
  • The Miami moon
  • The town destroyers
  • A disaster in the making
  • March into oblivion
  • A mouthful of Earth
  • This moment may never return
  • A matter of commitment
  • Desultory operations
  • Toward an uncertain fate
  • A lack of candor
  • 2,500 commissioners, properly appointed
  • A question of unanimity
  • A test of initiative
  • Facts are stubborn things
  • The fortuitous events of war
  • Season of the blacksnake
  • Our moccasins trickled blood The essence of despair
  • We will make a new world
  • Epilogue: all my sorrows.

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