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A brutal reckoning Andrew Jackson, the Creek Indians, and the epic war for the American South

"The Creek War was one of the most tragic episodes in American history, leading to the greatest loss of Native American life on what is now U.S. soil. What began as a vicious internal conflict among the Creek Indians metastasized like a cancer. The ensuing Creek War of 1813-1814 shattered Native Ame...

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Main Author: Cozzens, Peter, 1957- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Jackson, Andrew, > 1767-1845 > Military leadership.
Creek War, 1813-1814.
Creek War, 1813-1814 > Campaigns.
Creek Indians > Southern States > History.
Creek Indians > Southern States > History > 19th century.
United States > Territorial expansion.
Indigenous peoples, Treatment of > Southern States.
Biographies.
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Table of 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 MeĢtis personages.

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