Westward Expansion: A History of the American FrontierMacmillan, 1949 - 873 pages |
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... tribes over which the Spaniards had no control : the Tuscarora whose hunting parties ranged between the Roanoke and Cape Fear rivers , the Catawba along the upper waters of the Wateree River , the Cherokee about the headwaters of the ...
... tribes over which the Spaniards had no control : the Tuscarora whose hunting parties ranged between the Roanoke and Cape Fear rivers , the Catawba along the upper waters of the Wateree River , the Cherokee about the headwaters of the ...
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... tribes . Each fort consisted of a stoutly built stone or timber palisade , with blockhouses at each corner and barracks within to house a hundred or more troops . For the next years these out- posts stood guard over the Indians , ready ...
... tribes . Each fort consisted of a stoutly built stone or timber palisade , with blockhouses at each corner and barracks within to house a hundred or more troops . For the next years these out- posts stood guard over the Indians , ready ...
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... tribes of the Southeast . The natural sympathy of the south- ern Indians for the Confederate cause during the Civil War allowed the United States to trump up false charges of treason as an excuse to strip away some of their lands ...
... tribes of the Southeast . The natural sympathy of the south- ern Indians for the Confederate cause during the Civil War allowed the United States to trump up false charges of treason as an excuse to strip away some of their lands ...
Contents
SECTION I | 13 |
Europes First Frontier 14921615 | 15 |
The Spanish in Eastern North America 15131590 | 19 |
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