The Wild Frontier (64 page)
Authors: William M. Osborn
W
ILLIAM
M. O
SBORN
was born and educated in Indiana and Michigan. He practiced law in Indiana for many years. Upon his retirement several years ago, he began researching this book about settlers and Indians, in part because the Massachusetts home of one of his father’s ancestors was burned by Indians in colonial days and, according to family tradition, one of his mother’s ancestors, a settler on the frontier, married a Cherokee named Lydia. Osborn and his wife, Pat, spend half their time in Indiana and half in Florida.
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FACTS ON FILE, INC
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Atlas of the North American Indian
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The Indian in America (New American Nation Series)
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The American Indians
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: excerpt from
God Gave Us This Country
by Bil Gilbert. Copyright © 1989 by Bil Gilbert; excerpt from
The Long Death
by Ralph K. Andrist. Copyright © 1964 by Ralph K. Andrist, renewed 1992 by Ralph K. Andrist; excerpt from
The Indian Wars
by S. L. A. Marshall. Copyright © 1972 by S. L. A. Marshall. Reprinted with permission of Scribner, a division of Simon & Schuster.
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A New Age Now Begins: A People’s History of the American Revolution
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Indians of North America
by Harold E. Driver. Copyright © 1961, 1969 by Harold E. Driver. Reprinted by permission of the University of Chicago Press.
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Indian Removal: The Emigration of the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians
by Grant Foreman. Copyright © 1932 by the University of Oklahoma Press. Reprinted by permission of the University of Oklahoma Press.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Osborn, William M.
The wild frontier: atrocities during the American-Indian War from Jamestown Colony
to Wounded Knee / William M. Osborn.
p. cm.
1. Indians of North America—Wars—United States. 2. Indians of North America—
Government relations. 3. Atrocities—United States—History.
4. Frontier and pioneer life—United States. I. Title.
E81 .O72 2000
973′.00497—dc21 00-27171
eISBN: 978-0-307-56117-6
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