Border Fights & Fighters: the Conflicts on the Eastern Frontiers With Indian Tribes and the British During the 18th Century

The Bloody years of the birth of a nation The inexorable drive westward was to be the course of the American nation until it had firmly established itself from the Atlantic to the Pacific. For many, however, 'the West' has come to mean the great plains of the interior with their herds of buffalo and mounted and feathered Indian tribes like the Sioux and Cheyenne. No less interesting is the period when the dangerous frontier between settlements and the wilderness with all its perils lay in w...