18 Best Native American, History Books
Native American, History is a popular category for many book lovers. Our team at Speechify has curated a list of the top Native American, History audiobooks everyone must read.
See the top 18 Native American, History audiobooks below.
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The Cause
- By: Joseph J. Ellis
- Length: 11 hours 39 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: September 21, 2021
- Language: English
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4.36(774 ratings)
4.36(774 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDIn one of the most “exciting and engaging” (Gordon S. Wood) histories of the American founding in decades, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Joseph J. Ellis offers an epic account of the origins and clashing ideologies of America’sIn one of the most “exciting and engaging” (Gordon S. Wood) histories of the American founding in decades, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Joseph J. Ellis offers an epic account of the origins and clashing ideologies of America’s revolutionary era, recovering a war more brutal, and more disorienting, than any in our history, save perhaps the Civil War.
For more than two centuries, historians have debated the history of the American Revolution, disputing its roots, its provenance, and above all, its meaning. These questions have intrigued Ellis–one of our most celebrated scholars of American history–throughout his entire career. With this
much-anticipated volume, he at last brings the story of the revolution to vivid life, with “surprising relevance” (Susan Dunn) for our modern era. Completing a trilogy of books that began with Founding Brothers, The Cause returns us to the very heart of the American founding, telling the military and
political story of the war for independence from the ground up, and from all sides: British and American, loyalist and patriot, white and Black.Taking us from the end of the Seven Years’ War to 1783, and drawing on a wealth of previously untapped sources, The Cause interweaves action-packed tales of North American military campaigns with parlor-room schemes and chicanery, creating a thrilling narrative that brings together a cast of
familiar and long-forgotten characters. Here Ellis recovers the stories of Catharine Littlefield Greene, wife of Major General Nathanael Greene, the sister among the “band of brothers”; Thayendanegea, a Mohawk chief known to the colonists as Joseph Brant, who led the Iroquois Confederation against the
Patriots; and Harry Washington, the enslaved namesake of George Washington, who escaped Mount Vernon to join the British Army and fight against his former master.Countering popular histories that romanticize the “Spirit of ’76,” Ellis demonstrates that the rebels fought under the mantle of “The Cause,” a mutable, conveniently ambiguous principle that afforded an umbrella under which different, and often conflicting, convictions and goals could coexist. Neither an
American nation nor a viable government existed at the end of the war. In fact, one revolutionary legacy regarded the creation of such a nation, or any robust expression of government power, as the ultimate betrayal of The Cause. This legacy alone rendered any effective response to the twin tragedies
of the founding–slavery and the Native American dilemma–problematic at best.Written with the vivid and muscular prose for which Ellis is known, and with characteristically trenchant insight, The Cause marks the culmination of a lifetime of engagement with the founding era. A landmark work of narrative history, it challenges the story we have long told ourselves about our origins as a people, and as a nation.
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The Life of William Apess, Pequot
- By: Philip F. Gura
- Narrator: Traber Burns
- Length: 7 hours 13 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2015
- Language: English
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4.23(12 ratings)
4.23(12 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDThe Pequot Indian intellectual, author, and itinerant preacher William Apess was one the most important voices of the nineteenth century. Here, Philip F. Gura offers the first book-length chronicle of Apess’ fascinating and consequentialThe Pequot Indian intellectual, author, and itinerant preacher William Apess was one the most important voices of the nineteenth century. Here, Philip F. Gura offers the first book-length chronicle of Apess’ fascinating and consequential life.
After an impoverished childhood marked by abuse, Apess soldiered with American troops during the War of 1812, converted to Methodism, and rose to fame as a lecturer who lifted a powerful voice of protest against the plight of Native Americans in New England and beyond. His 1829 autobiography, A Son of the Forest, stands as the first published by a Native American writer.
Placing Apess’ activism on behalf of Native American people in the context of the era’s rising tide of abolitionism, Gura argues that this founding figure of Native intellectual history deserves greater recognition in the pantheon of antebellum reformers.
Following Apess from his early life through the development of his political radicalism to his tragic early death and enduring legacy, this much-needed biography showcases the accomplishments of an extraordinary Native American.
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
- By: Dee Brown
- Narrator: Grover Gardner
- Length: 14 hours 21 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2009
- Language: English
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4.23(76643 ratings)
4.23(76643 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.95 USDImmediately recognized as a revelatory and enormously controversial book since its first publication in 1971, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is universally recognized as one of those rare books that forever changes the way its subject isImmediately recognized as a revelatory and enormously controversial book since its first publication in 1971, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is universally recognized as one of those rare books that forever changes the way its subject is perceived.
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Brown’s classic, eloquent, meticulously documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the nineteenth century. Using council records, autobiographies, and firsthand descriptions, Brown allows great chiefs and warriors of the Dakota, Ute, Sioux, Cheyenne, and other tribes to tell us in their own words of the series of battles, massacres, and broken treaties that finally left them and their people demoralized and decimated.
A unique and disturbing narrative told with force and clarity, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee changed forever our vision of how the West was won–and lost. It tells a story that should not be forgotten and so must be retold from time to time.
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Empire of the Summer Moon
- By: S. C. Gwynne
- Narrator: David Drummond
- Length: 15 hours 9 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2016
- Language: English
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4.21(38418 ratings)
4.21(38418 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0023.99 USD*Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award* *A New York Times Notable Book* *Winner of the Texas Book Award and the Oklahoma Book Award* This New York Times bestseller and stunning historical account of the*Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award*
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*A New York Times Notable Book*
*Winner of the Texas Book Award and the Oklahoma Book Award*
This New York Times bestseller and stunning historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West “is nothing short of a revelation…will leave dust and blood on your jeans” (The New York Times Book Review).
Empire of the Summer Moon spans two astonishing stories. The first traces the rise and fall of the Comanches, the most powerful Indian tribe in American history. The second entails one of the most remarkable narratives ever to come out of the Old West: the epic saga of the pioneer woman Cynthia Ann Parker and her mixed-blood son Quanah, who became the last and greatest chief of the Comanches.
Although readers may be more familiar with the tribal names Apache and Sioux, it was in fact the legendary fighting ability of the Comanches that determined when the American West opened up. Comanche boys became adept bareback riders by age six; full Comanche braves were considered the best horsemen who ever rode. They were so masterful at war and so skillful with their arrows and lances that they stopped the northern drive of colonial Spain from Mexico and halted the French expansion westward from Louisiana. White settlers arriving in Texas from the eastern United States were surprised to find the frontier being rolled backward by Comanches incensed by the invasion of their tribal lands.
The war with the Comanches lasted four decades, in effect holding up the development of the new American nation. Gwynne’s exhilarating account delivers a sweeping narrative that encompasses Spanish colonialism, the Civil War, the destruction of the buffalo herds, and the arrival of the railroads, and the amazing story of Cynthia Ann Parker and her son Quanah–a historical feast for anyone interested in how the United States came into being.
Hailed by critics, S. C. Gwynne’s account of these events is meticulously researched, intellectually provocative, and, above all, thrillingly told. Empire of the Summer Moon announces him as a major new writer of American history. -
Dreams of El Dorado
- By: H. W. Brands
- Narrator: Matt Kugler
- Length: 17 hours 11 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: October 22, 2019
- Language: English
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4.2(1267 ratings)
4.2(1267 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.98 USD“Epic in its scale, fearless in its scope” (Hampton Sides), this masterfully told account of the American West from a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist sets a new standard as it sweeps from the California Gold Rush and beyond.In Dreams of“Epic in its scale, fearless in its scope” (Hampton Sides), this masterfully told account of the American West from a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist sets a new standard as it sweeps from the California Gold Rush and beyond.In Dreams of El Dorado, H. W. Brands tells the thrilling, panoramic story of the settling of the American West. He takes us from John Jacob Astor’s fur trading outpost in Oregon to the Texas Revolution, from the California gold rush to the Oklahoma land rush. He shows how the migrants’ dreams drove them to feats of courage and perseverance that put their stay-at-home cousins to shame-and how those same dreams also drove them to outrageous acts of violence against indigenous peoples and one another. The West was where riches would reward the miner’s persistence, the cattleman’s courage, the railroad man’s enterprise; but El Dorado was at least as elusive in the West as it ever was in the East.... Read moreBalanced, authoritative, and masterfully told, Dreams of El Dorado sets a new standard for histories of the American West.
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Son of the Morning Star
- By: Evan S. Connell
- Narrator: Evan S. Connell
- Length: 20 hours 28 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: October 21, 2011
- Language: English
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4.13(2379 ratings)
4.13(2379 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0029.99 USDThis national best-seller vividly reconstructs one of the most unbelievable and controversial battles in American military history-General Custer’s Last Stand in 1876. Why would a seasoned leader like Custer lead 200 U.S. Army soldiers intoThis national best-seller vividly reconstructs one of the most unbelievable and controversial battles in American military history-General Custer’s Last Stand in 1876. Why would a seasoned leader like Custer lead 200 U.S. Army soldiers into battle against 2,000 Native American warriors? The answer lies in this book, which captures in stunning detail the heroism, foolishness, and brutality that led to this legendary battle.
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The Heart of Everything That Is
- By: Bob Drury
- Narrator: George Newbern
- Length: 12 hours 5 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2013
- Language: English
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4.11(3485 ratings)
4.11(3485 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0023.95 USDThis acclaimed New York Times bestselling biography of the legendary Sioux warrior Red Cloud, is “a page-turner with remarkable immediacy…and the narrative sweep of a great Western” (The Boston Globe).Red Cloud was the onlyThis acclaimed New York Times bestselling biography of the legendary Sioux warrior Red Cloud, is “a page-turner with remarkable immediacy…and the narrative sweep of a great Western” (The Boston Globe).
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Red Cloud was the only American Indian in history to defeat the United States Army in a war, forcing the government to sue for peace on his terms. At the peak of Red Cloud’s powers the Sioux could claim control of one-fifth of the contiguous United States and the loyalty of thousands of fierce fighters. But the fog of history has left Red Cloud strangely obscured. Now, thanks to the rediscovery of a lost autobiography, and painstaking research by two award-winning authors, the story of the nineteenth century’s most powerful and successful Indian warrior can finally be told.
In this astonishing untold story of the American West, Bob Drury and Tom Clavin restore Red Cloud to his rightful place in American history in a sweeping and dramatic narrative based on years of primary research. As they trace the events leading to Red Cloud’s War, they provide intimate portraits of the many lives Red Cloud touched–mountain men such as Jim Bridger; US generals like William Tecumseh Sherman, who were charged with annihilating the Sioux; fearless explorers, such as the dashing John Bozeman; and the memorable warriors whom Red Cloud groomed, like the legendary Crazy Horse. And at the center of the story is Red Cloud, fighting for the very existence of the Indian way of life.
“Unabashed, unbiased, and disturbingly honest, leaving no razor-sharp arrowhead unturned, no rifle trigger unpulled….a compelling and fiery narrative” (USA TODAY), this is the definitive chronicle of the conflict between an expanding white civilization and the Plains Indians who stood in its way. -
Shadows at Dawn
- By: Karl Jacoby
- Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 10 hours 20 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2019
- Language: English
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4.08(284 ratings)
4.08(284 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0022.95 USDA masterful reconstruction of one of the worst Indian massacres in American history In April 1871, a group of Americans, Mexicans, and Tohono O’odham Indians surrounded an Apache village at dawn and murdered nearly 150 men, women, and childrenA masterful reconstruction of one of the worst Indian massacres in American history
In April 1871, a group of Americans, Mexicans, and Tohono O’odham Indians surrounded an Apache village at dawn and murdered nearly 150 men, women, and children in their sleep. In the past century, the attack, which came to be known as the Camp Grant Massacre, has largely faded from memory. Now, drawing on oral histories, contemporary newspaper reports, and the participants’ own accounts, prizewinning author Karl Jacoby brings this perplexing incident and tumultuous era to life to paint a sweeping panorama of the American Southwest–a world far more complex, diverse, and morally ambiguous than the traditional portrayals of the Old West.
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Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher
- By: Timothy Egan
- Narrator: David Drummond
- Length: 11 hours 57 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: October 09, 2012
- Language: English
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4.06(7453 ratings)
4.06(7453 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDAt once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, Egan’s book tells the remarkable untold story behind Edward Curtis’s iconic photographs, following him throughout Indian country from desert to rainforestAt once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, Egan’s book tells the remarkable untold story behind Edward Curtis’s iconic photographs, following him throughout Indian country from desert to rainforest as he struggled to document the stories and rituals of more than eighty tribes. Even with the backing of Theodore Roosevelt and J.P. Morgan, it took tremendous perseverance. The undertaking changed him profoundly, from detached observer to outraged advocate. He would die penniless and unknown in Hollywood just a few years after publishing the last of his twenty volumes. But the charming rogue with the grade-school education had fulfilled his promise – his great adventure succeeded in creating one of America’s most stunning cultural achievements. Bonus disc features Edward Curtis photographs.
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The Captured
- By: Scott Zesch
- Narrator: Grover Gardner
- Length: 10 hours 34 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2004
- Language: English
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4.04(2392 ratings)
4.04(2392 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0022.95 USDIn 1870, ten-year-old Adolph Korn was kidnapped by Indians. He thrived in the Comanches’ rough, nomadic existence, quickly becoming one of the tribe’s fiercest warriors. Forcibly returned to his parents after three years, Korn neverIn 1870, ten-year-old Adolph Korn was kidnapped by Indians. He thrived in the Comanches’ rough, nomadic existence, quickly becoming one of the tribe’s fiercest warriors. Forcibly returned to his parents after three years, Korn never adjusted to life in white society. He spent his last years living in a cave, all but forgotten by his family.
Then Scott Zesch stumbled upon his great-great-great-uncle’s grave. Determined to understand how such a “good boy” could have become Indianized so completely, Zesch traveled across the West, digging through archives, speaking with Comanche elders, and tracking eight other child captives from the region with hauntingly similar experiences.
With a historian’s rigor and a novelist’s eye, Zesch paints a vivid portrait of life on the Texas frontier and offers one of the few nonfiction accounts of captivity.
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Unsettled Land
- By: Sam W. Haynes
- Length: 13 hours 48 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: May 03, 2022
- Language: English
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3.9(39 ratings)
3.9(39 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0031.99 USDA bold new history of the origins and aftermath of the Texas Revolution, revealing how Indians, Mexicans, and Americans battled for survival in one of the continent’s most diverse regions The Texas Revolution has long been cast as an epicA bold new history of the origins and aftermath of the Texas Revolution, revealing how Indians, Mexicans, and Americans battled for survival in one of the continent’s most diverse regions
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The Texas Revolution has long been cast as an epic episode in the origins of the American West. As the story goes, larger-than-life figures like Sam Houston, David Crockett, and William Barret Travis fought to free Texas from repressive Mexican rule. In Unsettled Land, historian Sam Haynes reveals the reality beneath this powerful creation myth. He shows how the lives of ordinary people–white Americans, Mexicans, Native Americans, and those of African descent–were upended by extraordinary events over twenty-five years. After the battle of San Jacinto, racial lines snapped taut as a new nation, the Lone Star republic, sought to expel Indians, marginalize Mexicans, and tighten its grip on the enslaved.
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The Worlds the Shawnees Made
- By: Stephen Warren
- Narrator: Tom Weiner
- Length: 10 hours 19 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2014
- Language: English
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3.83(48 ratings)
3.83(48 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0022.95 USDIn 1779, Shawnees from Chillicothe, a community in the Ohio country, told the British, “We have always been the frontier.” Their statement challenges an oft-held belief that American Indians derive their unique identities fromIn 1779, Shawnees from Chillicothe, a community in the Ohio country, told the British, “We have always been the frontier.” Their statement challenges an oft-held belief that American Indians derive their unique identities from longstanding ties to native lands. By tracking Shawnee people and migrations from 1400 to 1754, Stephen Warren illustrates how Shawnees made a life for themselves at the crossroads of empires and competing tribes, embracing mobility and often moving willingly toward violent borderlands. By the middle of the eighteenth century, the Shawnees ranged over the eastern half of North America and used their knowledge to foster notions of pan-Indian identity that shaped relations between Native Americans and settlers in the revolutionary era and beyond.
Warren’s deft analysis makes clear that Shawnees were not anomalous among native peoples east of the Mississippi. Through migration, they and their neighbors adapted to disease, warfare, and dislocation by interacting with colonizers as slavers, mercenaries, guides, and traders. These adaptations enabled them to preserve their cultural identities and resist coalescence without forsaking their linguistic and religious traditions.
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Blood Moon
- By: John Sedgwick
- Narrator: Fred Sanders
- Length: 17 hours 18 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2018
- Language: English
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3.8(279 ratings)
3.8(279 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0029.99 USDAn astonishing untold story from the nineteenth century–a “riveting…engrossing…’American Epic'” (The Wall Street Journal) and necessary work of history that reads like Gone with the Wind for the Cherokee.“AAn astonishing untold story from the nineteenth century–a “riveting…engrossing…’American Epic'” (The Wall Street Journal) and necessary work of history that reads like Gone with the Wind for the Cherokee.
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“A vigorous, well-written book that distills a complex history to a clash between two men without oversimplifying” (Kirkus Reviews), Blood Moon is the story of the feud between two rival Cherokee chiefs from the early years of the United States through the infamous Trail of Tears and into the Civil War. Their enmity would lead to war, forced removal from their homeland, and the devastation of a once-proud nation.
One of the men, known as The Ridge–short for He Who Walks on Mountaintops–is a fearsome warrior who speaks no English, but whose exploits on the battlefield are legendary. The other, John Ross, is descended from Scottish traders and looks like one: a pale, unimposing half-pint who wears modern clothes and speaks not a word of Cherokee. At first, the two men are friends and allies who negotiate with almost every American president from George Washington through Abraham Lincoln. But as the threat to their land and their people grows more dire, they break with each other on the subject of removal.
In Blood Moon, John Sedgwick restores the Cherokee to their rightful place in American history in a dramatic saga that informs much of the country’s mythic past today. Fueled by meticulous research in contemporary diaries and journals, newspaper reports, and eyewitness accounts–and Sedgwick’s own extensive travels within Cherokee lands from the Southeast to Oklahoma–it is “a wild ride of a book–fascinating, chilling, and enlightening–that explains the removal of the Cherokee as one of the central dramas of our country” (Ian Frazier).
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Chief Seattle and the Town That Took His Name
- By: David M. Buerge
- Narrator: Arthur Morey
- Length: 11 hours 43 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2018
- Language: English
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3.77(310 ratings)
3.77(310 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDThis is the first thorough historical account of Chief Seattle and his times–the story of a half-century of tremendous flux, turmoil, and violence, during which a native American war leader became an advocate for peace and strove to create aThis is the first thorough historical account of Chief Seattle and his times–the story of a half-century of tremendous flux, turmoil, and violence, during which a native American war leader became an advocate for peace and strove to create a successful hybrid racial community.
When the British, Spanish, and then Americans arrived in the Pacific Northwest, it may have appeared to them as an untamed wilderness. In fact, it was a fully settled and populated land. Chief Seattle was a powerful representative from this very ancient world. Historian David Buerge has been researching and writing this book about the world of Chief Seattle for the past twenty years. Buerge has threaded together disparate accounts of the time from the 1780s to the 1860s–including native oral histories, Hudson Bay Company records, pioneer diaries, French Catholic church records, and historic newspaper reporting.
Chief Seattle had gained power and prominence on Puget Sound as a war leader, but the arrival of American settlers caused him to reconsider his actions. He came to embrace white settlement and, following traditional native practice, encouraged intermarriage between native people and the settlers, offering his own daughter and granddaughters as brides, in the hopes that both peoples would prosper. Included in this account are the treaty signings that would remove the natives from their historic lands, the roles of such figures as Governor Isaac Stevens and Chiefs Leschi and Patkanim, the Battle at Seattle that threatened the existence of the settlement, and the controversial Chief Seattle speech that haunts to this day the city that bears his name.
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The Tuscarora War
- By: David La Vere
- Narrator: Joe Barrett
- Length: 9 hours 53 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2013
- Language: English
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3.76(78 ratings)
3.76(78 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDAt dawn on September 22, 1711, more than five hundred Tuscarora, Core, Neuse, Pamlico, Weetock, Machapunga, and Bear River Indian warriors swept down on the unsuspecting European settlers living along the Neuse and Pamlico Rivers of North Carolina.At dawn on September 22, 1711, more than five hundred Tuscarora, Core, Neuse, Pamlico, Weetock, Machapunga, and Bear River Indian warriors swept down on the unsuspecting European settlers living along the Neuse and Pamlico Rivers of North Carolina. During the following days, they destroyed hundreds of farms, killed at least 140 men, women, and children, and took about 40 captives. So began the Tuscarora War, North Carolina’s bloodiest colonial war and surely one of its most brutal. In his gripping account, David La Vere examines the war through the lens of key players in the conflict, reveals the events that led to it, and traces its far-reaching consequences.
La Vere details the innovative fortifications produced by the Tuscaroras, chronicles the colony’s new practice of enslaving all captives and selling them out of country, and shows how both sides drew support from forces far outside the colony’s borders. La Vere concludes that this merciless war began a new direction in the development of the future state of North Carolina.
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History of the American Frontier 1763-1893
- By: Frederic L. Paxson
- Narrator: Joseph Tabler
- Length: 24 hours 54 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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3.67(3 ratings)
3.67(3 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0029.95 USDA Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken Realms History of the American Frontier 1763-1893 by Frederic L. Paxson, professor of history at the University of Wisconsin. Houghton Mifflin Company 1924. Pulitzer Prize winner in History,A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken Realms
History of the American Frontier 1763-1893 by Frederic L. Paxson, professor of history at the University of Wisconsin. Houghton Mifflin Company 1924. Pulitzer Prize winner in History, 1925.
The prize-winning History of the American Frontier, 1763-1893 covers a very wide sweep of topics, with unusual strength in handling violent relations between the frontiersman and the Indians. Paxson emphasized the impact on people of the process of moving to the west, downplaying the static aspects of specific localities.
From the Author’s Preface:When I began my studies in the history of the West some twenty years ago, the State of Colorado, where I worked, still bore the imprint of the struggle of the preceding decade. The frontier was gone; and the frontiersmen there as elsewhere in the United States were adapting themselves to the life of a new century. Turner had already pointed out the significance of the frontier in our history, but the occasional historical pioneer who followed his lead must make his own tools, find his sources, and assemble his bibliographies.
The time is ripe for … synthesis, in which an attempt is made to show the proportions of the whole story.
Author’s PrefaceI. The American Frontier of 1763II. The Forks of the OhioIII. The Shenandoah Country and the TennesseeIV. The Rear of the RevolutionV. The Land ProblemVI. Creation of the Public DomainVII. The National Land SystemVIII. The Old NorthwestIX. The Western BoundariesX. The First New StatesXI. Political Theories of the FrontierXII. Jeffersonian DemocracyXIII. The Frontier of 1800XIV. Ohio: The Clash of PrinciplesXV. The Purchase of LouisianaXVI. Problems of the Southwest BorderXVII. The Bonds of UnityXVIII. The Wabash Frontier: Tecumseh, 1811XIX. The Western War of 1812XX. Stabilizing the FrontierXXI. The Great MigrationXXII. Statehood on the Ohio: Indiana and IllinoisXXIII. The Cotton Kingdom: Mississippi and AlabamaXXIV. Missouri: The New SectionalismXXV. Public Land ReformXXVI. Frontier FinanceXXVII. The American SystemXXVIII. Jacksonian DemocracyXXIX. The East, and the Western MarketsXXX. The Western Internal ImprovementsXXXI. The Permanent Indian Frontier, 1825-1841XXXII. The Mississippi Valley BoomXXXIII. The Border States: Michigan and ArkansasXXXIV. The Independent State of TexasXXXV. 1837: The Prostrate WestXXXVI. The Trail to Santa FeXXXVII. The Settlement of OregonXXXVIII. The “State” of DeseretXXXIX. The War with MexicoXL. The Conquest of CaliforniaXLI. Far West and PoliticsXLII. PreemptionXLIII. The Frontier of the FortiesXLIV. The Railroad AgeXLV. Land Grants and the Western RoadsXLVI. Kansas-Nebraska and the Indian CountryXLVII. “Pike’s Peak or Bust!”XLVIII. The Frontier of the Mineral EmpireXLIX. The Overland RouteL. The Public Lands: Wide OpenLI. The Plains in the Civil WarLII. The Union Pacific RailroadLIII. The Disruption of the TribesLIV. The Panic of 1873LV. Frontier PanaceasLVI. The Cow CountryLVII. The Closed FrontierLVIII. The Admission of the “Omnibus” StatesLIX. The Disappearance of the Frontier
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The Taking of Jemima Boone
- By: Matthew Pearl
- Narrator: Jeremy Arthur
- Length: 6 hours 53 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: October 05, 2021
- Language: English
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3.65(1391 ratings)
3.65(1391 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.004.99 USDIn his first work of narrative nonfiction, Matthew Pearl, bestselling author of acclaimed novel The Dante Club, explores the little-known true story of the kidnapping of legendary pioneer Daniel Boone’s daughter and the dramatic aftermath thatIn his first work of narrative nonfiction, Matthew Pearl, bestselling author of acclaimed novel The Dante Club, explores the little-known true story of the kidnapping of legendary pioneer Daniel Boone’s daughter and the dramatic aftermath that rippled across the nation.
On a quiet midsummer day in 1776, weeks after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, thirteen-year-old Jemima Boone and her friends Betsy and Fanny Callaway disappear near the Kentucky settlement of Boonesboro, the echoes of their faraway screams lingering on the air.
A Cherokee-Shawnee raiding party has taken the girls as the latest salvo in the blood feud between American Indians and the colonial settlers who have decimated native lands and resources. Hanging Maw, the raiders’ leader, recognizes one of the captives as Jemima Boone, daughter of Kentucky’s most influential pioneers, and realizes she could be a valuable pawn in the battle to drive the colonists out of the contested Kentucky territory for good.
With Daniel Boone and his posse in pursuit, Hanging Maw devises a plan that could ultimately bring greater peace both to the tribes and the colonists. But after the girls find clever ways to create a trail of clues, the raiding party is ambushed by Boone and the rescuers in a battle with reverberations that nobody could predict. As Matthew Pearl reveals, the exciting story of Jemima Boone’s kidnapping vividly illuminates the early days of America’s westward expansion, and the violent and tragic clashes across cultural lines that ensue.
In this enthralling narrative in the tradition of Candice Millard and David Grann, Matthew Pearl unearths a forgotten and dramatic series of events from early in the Revolutionary War that opens a window into America’s transition from colony to nation, with the heavy moral costs incurred amid shocking new alliances and betrayals.
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Blooding at Great Meadows
- By: Alan Axelrod
- Narrator: David Drummond
- Length: 8 hours 51 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2006
- Language: English
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3.37(39 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDHistory celebrates George Washington as the leader of the American Revolution and the father of his country. But what has gone previously unexamined is Washington’s life as a twenty-two-year-old lieutenant colonel; he led four hundred AmericanHistory celebrates George Washington as the leader of the American Revolution and the father of his country. But what has gone previously unexamined is Washington’s life as a twenty-two-year-old lieutenant colonel; he led four hundred American militiamen against a bigger, more experienced French army and paid a high price. Not only did Washington lose over a third of his men, but the Battle of Great Meadows was also the spark that ignited the French and Indian War.
Yet in the midst of this bitter battle, Washington forged the intellectual, visceral, and spiritual aspects that enabled him to achieve all that he did in the years that followed. In this never-before-told account, historian Alan Axelrod examines the geopolitical, financial, and intensely personal issues that shaped the leader Washington would become.
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