The Divided Ground: Indians, Settlers and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution
- ISBN-10
- 1400077079
- ISBN-13
- 9781400077076
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 542
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Author
- Alan Taylor
Description
The changing relationship of Joseph Brant, a young Mohawk, and Samuel Kirkland, the son of a colonial clergyman, from their first meeting at a New England boarding school, is set against the role of the Native American peoples in North America during the American Revolution and the shaping of the postwar borderland between the United States and British Canada. Reprint.
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