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Frontier: the term carries the unavoidable scent of the Western. But before Custer or Lewis and Clark, before the first Conestoga wagons rumbled over the Plains, it was the East that designated the frontier - the boundary between intricate Native ethnicities and the first colonizing Europeans.This is actually the more mature, wilder, darker background of a time when the land between your Atlantic and the Appalachians was contested floor - when radically different societies implemented and modified the means of the other, while attempting for control of what all considered to be their land. The First Frontier traces two . 5 centuries of history through poignant, mostly unheralded personal stories - like this of your Harvard-educated Indian caught up in seventeenth-century civil warfare, a mixed-blood interpreter aiming to straddle his white and Native heritage, and a Puritan woman wielding a scalping knife whose bloody deeds still resonate uneasily today. It is the first book in years to coloring a sweeping picture of the Eastern frontier, merging vibrant storytelling with the latest research to bring alive modern America's tumultuous, uncertain origins.
