Set against the turbulent years that made Andrew Jackson's reputation as Old Hickory and determined the future course of this nation, this book recounts America's fight to control the old Southwest, the territory stretching from the Appalachians to the Mississippi and from the...
Praise for Jackson's Way A compelling account of Jackson's Indian-fighting days . . . as well a grand sweep of the conquest of the trans-Appalachian West, a more complex, bloody, and intrigue-filled episode than is generally appreciated. . . . Mr. Buchanan writes with...