Title:
A brutal reckoning : Andrew Jackson, the Creek Indians, and the epic war for the American South
Author:
Credits:
Peter Cozzens.
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Date(s):
2023
Format:
Books
Physical Description:
xxii, 434 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-417) and index.
Contents:
The Creek confederacy, 1790-1813 -- A note to readers -- Prologue -- From the ashes of the Entrada -- A rope of sand -- Between three fires -- The sweets of civilization -- The hungry years -- Rise of the Red Sticks -- Civil war -- Stark mad -- Terror in the Tensaw -- The emergency of Old Hickory -- Invasion of the Tennesseans -- The Red Sticks resilient -- All we lack is powder and lead -- Tennesseans to the rear -- Jackson courts disaster -- A slow, laborious slaughter -- An elusive peace -- Betrayal at Fort Jackson -- A scalp for a scalp -- Shades of genocide -- Appendix: Creek and Métis personages.
Description:
"From acclaimed historian Peter Cozzens, the pivotal struggle between the Creek Indians and an insatiable United States for control over the Deep South"--Provided by publisher.
Personal Subject:
Geographic Term:
Document ID:
SD_ILS:1768868
Language:
English
