Dimensions
156 x 234 x 25mm
Before the white man came, the vast region that is now the united sTates was inhabited by one million Indians, organized into six hundred distinct societies and scattered from the desolate ice wastes of the Far North to the hot swamps of the South; from the great forests of the East to the plains and deserts of the West.
The first meetings between Indians and white men in the South-east and along the Atlantic coast were not important historically in themselves but they kindled the flames that blazed savagely for four centuries. The Indian nations, living in peace and prosperity for the most part, in spite of an intermittent but limited intertribal warfare, learned that the white invaders could not be trusted, and that their object was not the peaceful intercourse of trade which the Indians offered them, but naked conquest. After four centuries of nearly continuous warfare the Indians were reduced numerically to less than four hundred thousand, their lands gone and their homes a series of reservations in, for the most part, the western United States.
Illustrated throughout, this is the dramatic account of their wars of survival from 1500 to 1900.
