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| | | Fiction | Home » » » Tallapoosa | | | | | | | Description: | | Two brothers from Virginia migrate to new lands in the Mississippi territory (present-day Alabama) in the early 1800s. There they take brides, one an Indian woman and the other the daughter of another settler, and try to build lives on the border of the Creek Nation. At first, life is peaceful and happy as the two couples farm, build and trade with the Creeks living nearby. But as more Europeans arrive, economic forces, political ambition, and personal aggression result in increasing conflict and then bloodshed, culminating in the Battle of Horseshoe Bend in 1814. Tallapoosa is an exciting historical novel about the Creek Wars and the ramifications of U.S. aggression into Native American lands. | | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Larry Williamson | | Paperback:
| 256 pages | | Publisher:
| NewSouth, Inc. | | Publication Date:
| February 01, 2007 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 1603060294 | | Product Length:
| 5.51 inches | | Product Width:
| 8.5 inches | | Product Height:
| 0.57 inches | | Product Weight:
| 0.72 pounds | | Package Length:
| 8.5 inches | | Package Width:
| 5.51 inches | | Package Height:
| 0.58 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.73 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 1 reviews |
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Excellent Historical FictionFeb 06, 2003
Descendents of both sides will appreciate Larry Williamson's fair representation of the historic Battle of Horseshoe Bend, where General Andrew Jackson broke the resistance of the Muskogi (Creek) Nation in a skirmish that led to the Trail of Tears. In a clever and well-written novel, true to the historical events contained therein, Williamson brings to life what might have been the loves, emotions, fears, and ambitions of the innocent people, both European settlers and Native Americans, caught in the no-man's-land of this American Tragedy. The novel disturbs, but uplifts, as it exposes the difficult and dangerous life, for native and settler alike, on the Alabama frontier, along the Tallapoosa River. It's full of action--a good buy and a good read.
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