Massacre at Cavett's Station : frontier Tennessee during the Cherokee wars /
In the late 1700s, as white settlers spilled across the Appalachian Mountains, claiming Cherokee and Creek lands for their own, tensions between Native Americans and pioneers reached a boiling point. Land disputes stemming from the 1791 Treaty of Holston went unresolved, and Knoxville settlers attac...
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Knoxville :
The University of Tennessee Press,
2013
Knoxville : [2013] |
| Edition: | First edition |
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Table of Contents:
- The Omen
- The Advancing Banner of a Greedy Host
- The Cavetts
- The Lost Station
- Digging into the Past
- A Little Spot of Ground to Stand Upon
- To Become Herdsmen and Cultivators
- The Prophesy
- Epilogue