The borderland of fear : Vincennes, Prophetstown, and the invasion of the Miami homeland /

The Ohio River Valley was a place of violence in the nineteenth century, something witnessed on multiple stages ranging from local conflicts between indigenous and Euro-American communities to the Battle of Tippercanoe and the War of 1812. To describe these events as simply the result of American ex...

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Main Author: Bottiger, Patrick (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2016]
Series:Borderlands and transcultural studies.
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