New Releases by Dee Brown

The forced removal of thousands of proud and prosperous Cherokees from their 35,000 square miles in the Southern uplands to less desirable land beyond the Mississippi stands as one of the blackest episodes in American history.

These legendary brigands and cutthroats made opening the trans-Allegheny west a colorful, but deadly, business.

This battle, the "Bull Run of the West," left Missouri open to the Confederacy and gave the Union another graphic lesson that this would be no easy war.

Failure and triumph each played their parts in the final.

"Two hundred and seventy authentic photographs and sketches and a running narrative of rare simplicity and power make up this story of the struggle between the United States and the western Indian tribes which chose to fight rather than to go tamely on reservations." Dust cover.