Historians have traditionally viewed the -Creek War of 1836- as a minor police action centered on rounding up the Creek Indians for removal to Indian Territory. Using extensive archival research, John T. Ellisor demonstrates that, in fact, the Second Creek War was neither brief nor small. Indeed, armed conflict continued long after -peace- was declared and the majority of Creeks had been sent west. Ellisor's study also broadly illuminates southern society just prior to the Indian removals, a time when many blacks, whites, and Natives lived in close proximity in the Old Southwest. In the Creek...
Historians have traditionally viewed the -Creek War of 1836- as a minor police action centered on rounding up the Creek Indians for removal to Indian ...
