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

by Scott Weidensaul

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0151015155
• ISBN13: 9780151015153
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Harper
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.3"