Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the American Frontier
The bloodshed and hatred of frontier conflict at once made go-betweens obsolete and taught the harsh lesson of the woods: the final incompatibility of colonial and native dreams about the continent they shared. Long erased from history, the go-betweens of early America are recovered here in vivid detail.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Year
- 2000
- ISBN-13
- 9780393319767
- Genre
- History
- Topics
- Colonial American frontierNative American-colonial relationsCultural intermediaries
Awards
- Bancroft PrizeWon(2000)
Other awarded books from James H. Merrell
- The Indians' New World: Catawbas and Their Neighbors from European Contact through the Era of Removal
- Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania Frontier
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