Frontier Rebels: The Fight for Independence in the American West, 1765-1776

by Patrick Spero

Book Overview

In 1763, the Seven Years' War ended in a spectacular victory for the British. The French army agreed to leave North America, but many Native Americans, fearing that the British Empire would expand onto their lands and conquer them, refused to lay down their weapons. Under the leadership of a shrewd Ottawa warrior named Pontiac, they kept fighting for their freedom, capturing several British forts and devastating many of the westernmost colonial...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393634701
• ISBN13: 9780393634709
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.5"