The First Frontier: The Forgotten History of Struggle, Savagery, and Endurance in Early America

Frontier: the word carries the inevitable scent of the West. But before Custer or Lewis and Clark,...
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Author: Scott Weidensaul
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Language: English
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The First Frontier: The Forgotten History of Struggle, Savagery, and Endurance in Early America by Weidensaul, Scott

The First Frontier: The Forgotten History of Struggle, Savagery, and Endurance in Early America

¥7,827

The First Frontier: The Forgotten History of Struggle, Savagery, and Endurance in Early America

¥7,827
Author: Scott Weidensaul
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

Frontier: the word carries the inevitable scent of the West. But before Custer or Lewis and Clark, before the first Conestoga wagons rumbled across the Plains, it was the East that marked the frontier--the boundary between complex Native cultures and the first colonizing Europeans.

Here is the older, wilder, darker history of a time when the land between the Atlantic and the Appalachians was contested ground--when radically different societies adopted and adapted the ways of the other, while struggling for control of what all considered to be their land.

The First Frontier traces two and a half centuries of history through poignant, mostly unheralded personal stories--like that of a Harvard-educated Indian caught up in seventeenth-century civil warfare, a mixed-blood interpreter trying to straddle his white and Native heritage, and a Puritan woman wielding a scalping knife whose bloody deeds still resonate uneasily today. It is the first book in years to paint a sweeping picture of the Eastern frontier, combining vivid storytelling with the latest research to bring to life modern America's tumultuous, uncertain beginnings.


Author: Scott Weidensaul
Publisher: Harper
Published: 02/08/2012
Pages: 496
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.55lbs
Size: 9.28h x 6.31w x 1.44d
ISBN: 9780151015153


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 11/14/2011 pg. 45
Kirkus Reviews 12/01/2011
Booklist 01/01/2012 pg. 32
Library Journal 02/01/2012 pg. 77
Choice 10/01/2012

About the Author

Author and naturalist SCOTT WEIDENSAUL, who grew up in the heart of the old eastern frontier and has always been curious to learn more about it, has written more than two dozen books, including the Pulitzer Prize finalist Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds.


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