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