Ill-Fated Frontier - Forman, Samuel
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Ill-Fated Frontier is at once a pioneer adventure and a compelling narrative of the frictions that emerged among entrepreneurial pioneers and their sixty slaves, Indians fighting to preserve their land, and Spanish colonials with their own agenda. Here is a lively and visceral portrait of the wild and enduring American frontier in 1789. The melting pot America would become was barely simmering when an ill-fated attempt to settle land near Natchez in brought together a volatile mix of ambitious Northern pioneers and their slaves, Spanish colonists, and Native Americans who had claimed the land…mehr

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Ill-Fated Frontier is at once a pioneer adventure and a compelling narrative of the frictions that emerged among entrepreneurial pioneers and their sixty slaves, Indians fighting to preserve their land, and Spanish colonials with their own agenda. Here is a lively and visceral portrait of the wild and enduring American frontier in 1789. The melting pot America would become was barely simmering when an ill-fated attempt to settle land near Natchez in brought together a volatile mix of ambitious Northern pioneers and their slaves, Spanish colonists, and Native Americans who had claimed the land as theirs for hundreds of years. This illuminating episode in American history comes to life in this account of an expedition gone wrong. It began with an optimistic plan to settle and expand in the new territory. It ended ignominiously, with the body of one of the expedition's leaders returning to New Jersey stored in a pickle barrel. What happened in between--a cautionary tale of greed, incompetence, and hubris--lies at the center of this fascinating account by Harvard historian Samuel A. Forman. Endorsed by New York Times best-selling author Nathaniel Philbrick, it is a startling and frank portrait of a young America that examines the dream of an inclusive American experience and its reality--a debate that continues today.
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Samuel A. Forman is an historian and Harvard University faculty member. He is educated at the University of Pennsylvania in American History. Throughout his successful careers as physician, military officer and businessman, he has published and lectured on historical topics that inform current issues. His definitive American Founder¿s biography Dr. Joseph Warren ¿ The Boston Tea Party, Bunker Hill, and the Birth of American Liberty [Pelican, 2012] won the American Revolution Round Table of Philadelphiäs Book of the Year. He was inducted as an honorary life member into the Society of the Cincinnati on the basis of his historical writings.