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Hard cover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. The real story of the ordeal experienced by both settlers and Indians during the Europeans' great migration west across America, from the colonies to California, has been almost completely eliminated from the histories we now read. In truth, it was a horrifying and appalling experience. Nothing like it had ever happened anywhere else in the world. In The Wild Frontier, William M. Osborn discusses the changing settler attitude toward the Indians over several centuries, as well as Indian and settler characteristics, the Indian love of warfare, for instance (more than 400 inter-tribal wars were fought even after the threatening settlers arrived), and the settlers' irresistible desire for the land occupied by the Indians. The atrocities described in The Wild Frontier led to the death of more than 9,000 settlers and 7,000 Indians. Most of these events were not only horrible but bizarre. Notoriously, the British use of Indians to terrorize the settlers during the American Revolution left bitter feelings, which in turn contributed to atrocious conduct on the part of the settlers. Osborn also discusses other controversial subjects, such as the treaties with the Indians, matters relating to the occupation of land, the major part disease played in the war, and the statements by both settlers and Indians each arguing for the extermination of the other. He details the disgraceful American government policy toward the Indians, which continues even today, and speculates about the uncertain future of the Indians themselves.Thousands of eyewitness accounts are the raw material of The Wild Frontier, in which we learn that many Indians tortured and killed prisoners, and some even engaged in cannibalism; and that though numerous settlers came to the New World for religious reasons, or to escape English oppression, many others were convicted of crimes and came to avoid being hanged.The Wild Frontier tells a story that helps us understand our history, and how as the settlers moved west, they often brutally expelled the Indians by force while themselves suffering torture and kidnapping.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Binding firm, cover has edge wear, interior clean and unmarked save for name stamped to ffep. 442 pp.

Soft Cover. Condizione: Very Good. Volume 11, No. 3, July 2002. 186 pp. Vol. 11, Number 3, July 2002 only! ISSN: 1043-4070. Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear, crisp pages and clean text.

Soft Cover. Condizione: Like New. Volume 13, No. 3, July 2004. 125 pp. Vo. 13, Number 3, July 2004 only! ISSN: 1043-4070. Clean, fresh copy with very light shelf wear, crisp pages and clean text.

Soft Cover. Condizione: Very Good. Volume 12, No. 1, January 2003. 169 pp. Vol. 12, Number 1, January 2003 only! ISSN: 1043-4070. Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear, crisp pages and clean text.

Soft Cover. Condizione: Very Good. Volume 12, No. 2, April 2003. 174 pp. Vol. 12, Number 2, April 2003 only! ISSN: 1043-4070. Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Stain on front cover.

Soft Cover. Condizione: Like New. Volume 9, No. 4, October 2000. 158 pp. Vol. 9, Number 4, October 2000 only! ISSN: 1043-4070. Clean, fresh, sharp, tight, soldi, essentially flawless copy save very mild shelf wear and pen marking on spine.

Pamphlet. Condizione: Collectible; Very Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDCover little rubbed else very good. 442pp Genetics.