Wilderness Empire
1968
Volume II in The Winning of America (Narratives of America) Series.
In the continuing saga about the way the white man moved into Indian
territory and took over, this narrative history tells the story
of the French and Indian War and its effect upon the American frontier
in the Mohawk Valley and other regions in New York, in the wilds
of Pennsylvania and in the St. Lawrence Valley, following in particular
the lives, careers and adventures of such characters as Sir William
Johnson, who is adopted into the Mohawk tribe and becomes a sort
of liaison between the Indians -- particularly the tribes of the
Iroquois League -- and the whites in this turbulent period. The
scope of the book runs from the early 1700's to 1760. Nominated
for a Pulitzer Prize in history, this book was riginally published
in hardcover 1968 by Little, Brown & Co., Boston, MA. and in
paperback by Bantam, NYC, in 1969. Having gone out of print after
26 years in hardcover and 29 years in paperback, this volume and
the other five volumes in The Winning of America (Narratives
of America) are presently being reprinted by The Jesse Stuart
Foundation, Ashland, Kentucky.
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