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(0)Samuel Forman
Author
Publisher
Lyons Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Pelican Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"Dr. Joseph Warren conducted what was surely the most unusual medical practice in America's early history. He collected key military intelligence prior to the Revolutionary War from a network of spies acting as patients and was among early American doctors to use dead bodies for anatomical study. However, that is only part of his story. By virtue of directing the original Minute-men, Warren is considered a founder of the Army National Guard. He served...