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Front: An unidentified African American Union soldier.
Back: The capture of General Richard Prescott. (Library of
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William S. King
To Raise Up a Nation
John Brown, Frederick Douglass, and the Making of a Free Country
The Sweeping Story of the Men and Women Who Fought to End Slavery in America
“In his fast-paced and deeply researched To Raise Up a Nation, William S.
King narrates the coming of the Civil War, the war itself, and the emancipation process, through the intertwined lives of John Brown and Frederick
Douglass. King’s stimulating, well-written account draws upon telling anecdotes and pen portraits to document America’s dramatic story from
Harper’s Ferry to Appomattox, a drama personified by the lives of Brown
and Douglass.”—John David Smith, Charles H. Stone Distinguished
Professor of American History, University of North Carolina at
Charlotte, and author of Lincoln and the U.S. Colored Troops
Drawing on decades of research, and demonstrating remarkable command
of a great range of primary sources, William S. King has written an important history of African Americans’ own contributions and points of crossracial cooperation to end slavery in America. Beginning with the civil war
along the border of Kansas and Missouri, the author traces the remarkable
life of John Brown and the personal support for his ideas from elite New
England businessmen, intellectuals such as Emerson and Thoreau, and
African Americans, including his confidant, Frederick Douglass, and Harriet
Tubman. Throughout, King links events that contributed to the growing
antipathy in the North toward slavery and the South’s concerns for its
future, including Nat Turner’s insurrection, the Amistad affair, the Fugitive
Slave law, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and the Dred Scott decision. The
author also effectively describes the debate within the African American
community as to whether the U.S. Constitution was colorblind or if emigration was the right course for the future of blacks in America.
Following Brown’s execution after the failed raid on Harper’s Ferry in
1859, King shows how Brown’s vision that only a clash of arms would
eradicate slavery was set into motion after the election of Abraham
Lincoln. Once the Civil War erupted on the heels of Brown’s raid, the
author relates how black leaders, white legislators, and military officers vigorously discussed the use of black manpower for the Union effort as well
as plans for the liberation of the “veritable Africa” within the southern United
States. Following the Emancipation Proclamation of January 1863, recruitment of black soldiers increased and by war’s end they made up nearly
ten percent of the Union army, and contributed to many important victories.
To Raise Up a Nation: John Brown, Frederick Douglass, and the Making
of a Free Country is a sweeping history that explains how the destruction
of American slavery was not directed primarily from the counsels of local
and national government and military men, but rather through the grassroots efforts of extraordinary men and women. As King notes, the Lincoln
administration ultimately armed black Americans, as John Brown had
attempted to do, and their role was a vital part in the defeat of slavery.
Price: $35.00
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Illus: 40 b/w illus., maps
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ISBN: 978-1-59416-191-9
American History
World Rights
October 2013
WILLIAM S. KING is an independent scholar. Son of noted translator
Martha King, he lives in New Jersey with his wife.
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Christian M. McBurney
Kidnapping the Enemy
The Special Operations to Capture Generals Charles Lee and Richard Prescott
The Daring Raid to Kidnap a British General in Order to Gain Freedom for the
Highest Ranking Continental Officer Captured During the American Revolution
On the night of December 12, 1776, while on a reconnaissance mission in
New Jersey, Lieutenant Colonel William Harcourt and Cornet Banastre
Tarleton of the British dragoons learned from Loyalist informers that Major
General Charles Lee, the second-in-command in the Continental army
behind only George Washington, was staying at a tavern at nearby Basking
Ridge. Gaining valuable information as they rode, by threatening captured
American soldiers with death if Lee’s whereabouts was not revealed,
Harcourt and Tarleton, surrounded the tavern, and after a short but violent
struggle, captured him. The dragoons returned through a hostile country by
a different route, arriving safely at their British post at New Brunswick with
their quarry in hand. With Lee’s capture, the British were confident the rebellion would soon be over.
Stung by Lee’s kidnapping, the Americans decided to respond with their
own special operation, perhaps the most outstanding one of the war. On the
dark night of July 10, 1777, Lieutenant Colonel William Barton led a handpicked party in whaleboats across Narragansett Bay—carefully avoiding
British navy ships—to Newport, Rhode Island. Although the town was occupied by more than 3,000 enemy soldiers, after landing Barton led his men
up a hidden path and stealthily hurried to a farmhouse where General
Richard Prescott had taken to spending nights. Surrounding the house, they
forced open the doors and seized the sleeping Prescott, as well as his aidede-camp and a sentry, and then quickly returned to their waiting boats.
Despite British artillerymen firing rockets and cannon to alert the British vessels in the bay, the bold band of Americans reached the mainland safely. Not
only had Barton kidnapped a British major general who could be exchanged
for Lee, he had removed from action a man who had gained a reputation for
his harsh treatment of American Patriots.
In Kidnapping the Enemy: The Special Operations to Capture Generals
Charles Lee and Richard Prescott, Christian M. McBurney relates the full
story of each of these remarkable raids, the subsequent exchange of the two
generals, and the impact of these kidnappings on the Revolutionary War. He
then follows the subsequent careers of the major players, including Lee,
Barton, Prescott, and Tarleton. The author completes his narrative with
descriptions of other attempts to kidnap high-ranking military officers and
government officials during the war, including ones organized by and against
George Washington. The low success rate of these operations makes the
raids that captured Lee and Prescott even more impressive.
Price: $29.95
Pages: 320 Trim: 6 x 9.25
Illus: 20 b/w illus., maps
Format: Jacketed Hardback
ISBN: 978-1-59416-183-4
American History
World Rights
November 2013
CHRISTIAN M. MCBURNEY is a partner in a Washington, DC, law firm.
His is author of a number of books and articles, including The Rhode
Island Campaign: The First French and American Operation in the
Revolutionary War, also available from Westholme Publishing.
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John A. Nagy
Dr. Benjamin Church, Spy
A Case of Espionage on the Eve of the American Revolution
Newly Discovered Evidence Against a Man Who Has Long Been Suspected as Being a
British Agent and America’s First Traitor
“John Nagy has devoted his astonishing research skills to unearthing the
truth about the least known and most dangerous spy in American history.”
—Thomas Fleming, author of Liberty! The American Revolution
Dr. Benjamin Church, Jr. (1734–1778) was a respected medical man and
civic leader in colonial Boston who was accused of being an agent for the
British in the 1770s, providing compromising intelligence about the plans
of the provincial leadership in Massachusetts as well as important information from the meetings of the First Continental Congress in Philadelphia.
Despite his eminence as a surgeon—he conducted an autopsy on one of
the victims of the Boston Massacre—and his own correspondence and
the numbers of references to him from contemporaries, no known image
of him exists and many aspects of his life remain obscure. What we do
know is that George Washington accused him of being a traitor to the
colonial cause and had him arrested and tried; after first being jailed in
Connecticut and then Massachusetts, during which he continued to profess
his innocence, he was allowed to leave America on a British vessel in
1778, but it foundered in the Atlantic with all hands lost. The question of
whether Dr. Benjamin Church was working for the British has never been
conclusively demonstrated, and remains among the mysteries of the
American Revolution.
In Dr. Benjamin Church, Spy: A Case of Espionage on the Eve of the
American Revolution, noted authority John A. Nagy has scoured original
documents to establish the best case against Church, identifying previously
unacknowledged correspondence and reports as containing references to
the doctor and his activities, and noting an incriminating letter in the possession of the Library of Congress that is a coded communication composed by Church to his British contact. Nagy shows that at the cusp of the
revolution, when the possibility—let alone the outcome—of an American
colonial rebellion was far from assured, Church sought to align himself with
the side he thought would emerge victorious—the British crown—and
thus line his pockets with money that he desperately needed. A fascinating
investigation into a centuries-old intrigue, this well-researched volume is an
important contribution to American Revolution scholarship.
Price: $24.95
Pages: 224 Trim: 6 x 9
Illus: 20 b/w illus., maps
Format: Jacketed Hardback
ISBN: 978-1-59416-184-1
American History
World Rights
October 2013
JOHN A. NAGY, scholar-in-residence at Saint Francis University,
Pennsylvania, and expert on eighteenth-century espionage, is author of
Invisible Ink: Spycraft of the American Revolution and Spies in the
Continental Capital: Espionage Across Pennsylvania During the American
Revolution, also available from Westholme Publishing.
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Ryan Singleton
Children of Enoch
A Portrait of American Poverty
A Caseworker’s Story of Marginalized People and the Struggles They Shared
“Children of Enoch awakens our humanity by acknowledging the plight and
suffering of many whose nearly invisible existence is unmistakably in our
midst. This powerful and unvarnished memoir does not shy away from the
uncomfortable gaze between the haves and have-nots.”
—David Ernesto Munar, President/CEO AIDS Foundation of Chicago
Ryan Singleton grew up in a white, middle-class, suburban town in Ohio.
After graduating from college, he moved to Chicago to pursue a career.
Finding a full-time job proved difficult, and rather than seek assistance
from his parents, he attempted to get by on his own. He lived in an efficiency studio with no assets, no table, no car, no shelves, and only a broken futon to sleep on. Proud, but hungry, the author took a step that he
never before contemplated: he applied for an Illinois state-issued Link card
that allowed him to purchase $150 worth of groceries every month. While
on food stamps, Singleton was embarrassed and grew to loathe poverty.
Continuing to seek employment, he answered a want ad for a caseworker
at a single resident occupancy (SRO) building on Chicago’s North Side.
SROs house the city’s most vulnerable people, providing low-income
apartments to individuals attempting to move out of homelessness and to
those receiving government assistance due to disabilities or other conditions. Here, the author found his calling. With his intimate exposure to
poverty, Singleton could better understand the everyday struggles of the
very poor.
Set in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood, Children of Enoch: A Portrait of
American Poverty takes readers into the SRO where the author worked for
three years. Here we encounter a wide range of personalities Singleton
counseled, from Mr. Kim, a Korean-American veteran of the Korean War
who polished floors during the graveyard shift at O’Hare Airport while suffering from severe PTSD, to “Tiny Tim,” a man-child permanently scarred
after witnessing his mother’s death. While listening to the occupants of the
SRO, the author learned that his job as a caseworker was not simply to
help people, or to end poverty, or to take away an individual’s loneliness: it
was to allow people to make choices for themselves, even if those decisions might not be what funders or society think is best for them. For
those one step from homelessness, the only thing in their control is their
ability to choose, and it is this small dignity that the author learned is critical
in the struggle to eradicate poverty in the United States by allowing the
poor to be individuals.
Price: $18.95
Pages: 256 Trim: 6 x 9
Illus: 2 b/w illus., map
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-59416-185-8
Current Affairs
World Rights
October 2013
RYAN SINGLETON served as a caseworker in an SRO for nearly three
years and currently works for a nonprofit agency in Chicago that assists
some of the most vulnerable people in the community. He lives with his
wife, Felipa, and can be found online at RyanSingleton.com.
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Helen Azar
The Diary of Olga Romanov
Royal Witness to the Russian Revolution
The First English Translation of the Wartime Diaries of the Eldest Daughter of
Nicholas II, the Last Tsar of Russia, with Additional Documents of the Period
In August 1914, Russia entered World War I, and with it, the imperial family of Tsar Nicholas II was thrust into a conflict they would not survive. His
eldest child, Olga Nikolaevna, great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria, had
begun a diary in 1905 when she was ten years old and kept writing her
thoughts and impressions of day-to-day life as a grand duchess until
abruptly ending her entries when her father abdicated his throne in March
1917. Held at the State Archives of the Russian Federation in Moscow,
Olga’s diaries during the wartime period have never been translated into
English until this volume. At the outset of the war, Olga and her sister
Tatiana worked as nurses in a military hospital along with their mother,
Tsarina Alexandra. Olga’s younger sisters, Maria and Anastasia, visited the
infirmaries to help raise the morale of the wounded and sick soldiers. The
strain was indeed great, as Olga records her impressions of tending to the
officers who had been injured and maimed in the fighting on the Russian
front. Concerns about her sickly brother, Aleksei, abound, as well those for
her father, who is seen attempting to manage the ongoing war. Gregori
Rasputin appears in entries, too, in an affectionate manner as one would
expect of a family friend. While the diaries reflect the interests of a young
woman, her tone grows increasingly serious as the Russian army suffers
setbacks, Rasputin is ultimately murdered, and a popular movement
against her family begins to grow. At the point Olga ends her writing in
1917, the author continues the story by translating letters and impressions
from family intimates, such as Anna Vyrubova, as well as the diary kept by
Nicholas II himself. Finally, once the imperial family has been put under
house arrest by the revolutionaries, we follow events through observations
by Alexander Kerensky, head of the initial Provisional Government, these
too in English translation for the first time. Olga would offer no further personal writings, as she and the rest of her family were crowded into the
basement of a house in the Urals and shot to death in July 1918.
The Diary of Olga Romanov: Royal Witness to the Russian Revolution,
translated and introduced by scientist and librarian Helen Azar, and supplemented with additional primary source material, is a remarkable document
of a young woman who did not choose to be part of a royal family and
never exploited her own position, but lost her life simply because of what
her family represented.
Price: $26.00
Pages: 256 Trim: 6 x 9
Illus: 15 b/w illus.
Format: Jacketed Hardback
ISBN: 978-1-59416-177-3
European History
World Rights
October 2013
HELEN AZAR is a librarian at the Free Library of Philadelphia who helps
run a popular local history program. Trained as a scientist, she has worked
at the Rare Book Foundation at the Museum of Tsarskoe Selo, Russia, and
has published several articles on the identification of the remains of the last
Tsar and his family.
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Albertus W. Catlin
“With the Help of God and a Few Marines”
The Battles of Chateau Thierry and Belleau Wood
An Account of the United States Marines’ Service in Two of the Most Important
Battles Fought by American Forces in World War I
“The story of the marines in France is told with authority and interest.”
—Booklist
“It is one of the books about the American war effort which is well worth
keeping as well as reading.”—Outlook
“A well-written and complete account.”—Library Bulletin
In an area of woods smaller than New York City’s Central Park, the United
States Marines made a desperate and dramatic stand against the might of
the Imperial Germany Army’s final offensive in June 1918. Had the
Germans broken through the lines as planned, there would have been no
Allied forces between them and Paris. World War I had stagnated for nearly
four years, and this last German push was a desperate, but powerful gamble to finally bring the war to a close. As at Guadalcanal during World War
II, the enemy had not anticipated the ferocity and doggedness of the
United States Marines. Leading this small expeditionary force was Brigadier
General Albertus Wright Catlin. For most of the month of June the marines
fought the Germans at close range, using their rifles effectively and engaging in hand-to-hand combat. Toward the end of the battle, Catlin was shot
in the chest by a sniper and removed from the field. While recuperating, he
began “With the Help of God and a Few Marines,” his account of the
marines’ experience in France, including what became known as the Battle
of Belleau Wood. First published in 1919, and considered among the
finest American memoirs from World War I, it is notable for its description
of what it means to be a United States Marine—an account as meaningful
today as it was nearly a century ago—and its straightforward depiction of
life and death on the Western Front in the last months of the war.
Price: $15.95
Pages: 328 Trim: 5 x 8
Illus: 8 b/w illus., 6 maps
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-59416-188-9
Military History
September 2013
ALBERTUS W. CATLIN (1868–1933), Naval Academy graduate and
Brigadier General of the United States Marine Corps, was a career officer
who was awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism during the Mexican
Revolution. While leading his troops at the Battle of Belleau Wood, he was
wounded by a sniper, an injury that ultimately claimed his life.
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John Fothergill
My Three Inns
The Spreadeagle, The Royal Hotel, The Three Swans
A Wry Literary Memoir of a British Inkeeper Between the World Wars
“There is just that sharp touch of wit about the book that makes us want to
go on reading. It is a mixture of journal and reminiscence held together by
the veracity of the writing.”—Leader
In 1922, at the age of twenty-five, after having studied Greek archaeology
for several years, John Fothergill found that he “must do something for a
living,” so he was “compelled to take an Inn.” Automobile travel was just
blossoming at the time and Fothergill settled on the Spreadeagle at Thame
between London and Oxford, a place where motorists could break up their
trip. Anticipating that his clientele would want good food and good accommodations, he had to transform the inn from one frequented by farmers in
search of a quick pint to a destination for travelers. A critical success, the
Spreadeagle was sold and Fothergill was hired by a brewery to showcase
his talents at the Royal Hotel in Ascot, on the outskirts of London. It was a
miserable experience and he and his new family decided to go it on their
own again, this time much further north in Market Harborough, where they
purchased The Three Swans. Here Fothergill was able to thrive and at the
time My Three Inns was first published in 1949, he was still proprietor.
Demanding, impeccable, traditional, and aspiring, John Fothergill
became a celebrity innkeeper through his attention to detail, quality of
food, and consistent standards. At a time when a good inn was appreciated, Fothergill’s establishments attracted regular customers as well as the
fashionable and wealthy—but he did not bend rules without reason or suffer fools. And here lies the charm in his idiosyncratic, subtly absorbing
memories, accounts, and anecdotes of interacting with the public for
decades.
Price: $14.95
Pages: 248 Trim: 5.5 x 8.5
Illus: 10 b/w illus.
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-59416-190-2
Memoir
September 2013
JOHN FOTHERGILL (1876–1957) was a contributor to the 1911
Encyclopaedia Britannica, a celebrated innkeeper, and noted cook. He is
author of An Innkeeper’s Diary (1931), Confessions of an Innkeeper
(1935), and John Fothergill’s Cookery Book (1943)
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Hugh George Rawlinson
Bactria
The History of a Forgotten Empire
An Important Account of the Greek State That Ruled the Hindu Kush for Centuries in
the Wake of Alexander the Great
“If through the Bactrian Empire European ideas were transmitted to the Far
East, through that and similar channels Asiatic ideas found their way to
Europe.”—Intellectual Development of Europe
Following the Macedonian invasion of Persian in the fourth century B.C., an
independent Greek-ruled empire emerged over an area encompassing
modern Afghanistan, eastern Iran, and northern Pakistan. This ancient
empire, called Bactria, is recorded in texts, both Asian and European, as
well as through coins, inscriptions, and architectural remnants. Bactria
served as a contact point between Europe, South Asia, and the Far East
for more than two hundred years before disappearing under the pressure
of a resurgent Persia to the west and Indian states to the east.
In Bactria: The History of a Forgotten Empire, historian Hugh G.
Rawlinson begins with the early history of Bactria and its subjugation by
Persia, and then describes the conquest of Iran by Alexander the Great
and the establishment of an independent Bactria ruled by Greeks. The
Bactrians adopted Buddhism early on and helped establish the religion
throughout the area. The author then follows the history of the empire
through its rulers, including Menander, until Greek rule was extinguished
around 135 B.C. Finally, the author discusses the effects of Greek occupation on the region. Based on meticulous research in ancient texts from
Greece, Persia, and India, and using material evidence of the time, this history, which won the Hare University Prize at Cambridge in 1909, remains
relevant today, providing a fascinating portrait of a little-known connection
between East and West.
Price: $14.95
Pages: 208 Trim: 5.5 x 8.5
Illus: 10 b/w illus., 2 maps
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-59416-186-5
Ancient History
October 2013
HUGH GEORGE RAWLINSON (1880–1957) was a historian who specialized in South Asia. Among his many books are Intercourse Between
India and the Western World from the Earliest Times to the Fall of Rome,
The Rise of the Maratha Empire, 1707–1761, and India, a Short Cultural
History.
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The Best-Selling Account Now in Trade Paperback
Stephen Puleo
The Caning
The Assault That Drove America to Civil War
A Turning Point in American History, the Beating of U.S. Senator Charles Sumner and
the Beginning of the War Over Slavery
“As Stephen Puleo relates in this gripping, richly detailed, and well-written
account of nineteenth-century America on the cusp of Civil War, the caning
of Charles Sumner was an act of unparalleled brutality.”
—Foreword Reviews
“Readers will not only find The Caning a compelling read, but they may be
surprised to find multiple parallels to today’s political climate.”
—Fredericksburg Star
“Fast-paced, well-researched, and poignant . . . highly recommended.”
—American Thinker
“Puleo surrounds this skillful dual biography with an account of a hopelessly divided nation sliding toward bloody conflict.”—Publishers Weekly
Puleo tells the story vividly, masterfully distilling its sprawling context.”
—Boston Globe
Early in the afternoon of May 22, 1856, ardent pro-slavery Congressman
Preston S. Brooks of South Carolina strode into the United States Senate
Chamber in Washington, D.C., and began beating renowned anti-slavery
Senator Charles Sumner with a cane until it splintered and the helpless
Massachusetts senator lay unconscious and covered in blood. It was a
retaliatory attack. Forty-eight hours earlier, Sumner had concluded a
speech on the Senate floor, during which he vilified Southern slave-owners
for violence occurring in Kansas, and famously charged Brooks’s second
cousin, South Carolina Senator Andrew Butler, as having “a mistress. . .
who ugly to others, is always lovely to him. . . . I mean, the harlot, Slavery.”
One of the most shocking and provocative events in American history,
the caning convinced each side that the gulf between them was unbridgeable and that they could no longer discuss their vast differences of opinion
regarding slavery on any reasonable level.The Caning: The Assault That
Drove America to Civil War tells the incredible story of this transformative
event. The caning had an enormous impact on the events that followed
over the next four years: the meteoric rise of the Republican Party and
Abraham Lincoln; the Dred Scott decision; the increasing militancy of abolitionists, notably John Brown’s actions; and the secession of the Southern
states and the founding of the Confederacy. In the wake of the caning, the
country was pushed, inexorably and unstoppably, to war.
Price: $18.95
Pages: 392 Trim: 6 x 9
Illus: 20 b/w illus.
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-59416-187-2
American History
World Rights
September 2013
STEPHEN PULEO is the author of five books, including the bestselling
Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 and Due to Enemy
Action: The True World War II Story of the USS Eagle 56. A former awardwinning newspaper reporter and contributor to American History and other
publications, he holds a master’s degree in history and teaches at Suffolk
University in Boston.
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Richard D. Blackmon
Dark and Bloody Ground
The American Revolution Along the Southern Frontier
The Battle Among American Indians, Loyalists, and Rebels in the Southern Colonies
The American Revolution marked a dramatic change in the struggle for
land along the southern frontier. Before the war, American Indian leaders
and British officials attempted to accommodate the westward expansion of
Anglo-Americans through land cessions designed to have the least impact
on American Indian societies. The region remained generally peaceful, but
with the onset of the revolution the era of land treaties had passed, and
terms were now dictated by the frontier settlers. British officials who once
provided oversight no longer exercised authority to curb the expansion of
Anglo-American settlements deep within territory claimed by American
Indians. Under these conditions, the war in the south took on a savage
character—what today would be called total war—as Indians, British officials, Loyalists, and Whigs all desperately fought to defend their independence along the frontier.
The southern frontier was not a single expanse, but rather was comprised of several distinct points of contact in Georgia, Kentucky, South
Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia between American Indians and white
settlers. In central Kentucky, Anglo-American settlements risked raids from
Indian tribes north of the Ohio River, led by the Shawnees. In present-day
northeast Tennessee, the settlements were in close proximity to the Overhill
Towns of the Cherokees, while in the northwest part of South Carolina the
settlements faced the Cherokee’s Lower, Middle, and Valley towns. White
settlements northwest of Augusta, Georgia, faced the Valley and Lower
towns of the Cherokees as well as the Lower and Upper Creeks. The
Indians too had contested frontiers among themselves, including the
Cherokee–Creek frontier in northern Georgia (the Cherokees having
secured that area with their victory over the Creeks at the Battle of Taliwa)
and the Cherokee–Shawnee frontier in Kentucky, where frequent clashes
between hunters of both tribes became so commonplace that the
Cherokees referred to the area as a “dark and bloody ground.” In Dark and
Bloody Ground: The American Revolution Along the Southern Frontier,
Richard D. Blackmon uses a wealth of primary source material to recount
and explain the events that marked the struggles of American Indians and
Anglo-Americans in the colonial South during one of the most turbulent
periods of North American history.
Price: $18.95
Pages: 320 Trim: 6 x 9
Illus: 30 b/w illus.
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-59416-189-6
American History
World Rights
September 2013
RICHARD D. BLACKMON has worked as a historic preservation consultant and has taught history at the college level. A graduate of the
University of South Florida, he has studied at Cambridge University. He
lives in Auburn, Alabama.
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