A chronicle of one of the most significant but least explored periods in American history—the 19th century forced removal of Native Americans from their lands—through the story of Chief John Ross, who came to be known as the Cherokee Moses. “Richly detailed and well-researched,” this story of one Native American chief’s resistance to American expansionism “unfolds like a political thriller” (Publishers Weekly).

This landmark history of the Sioux Nation in the 19th century includes one of the most thorough and accurate depictions of the tragic violence that broke out near Wounded Knee Creek on December 29th, 1890.

“By far the best treatment of the complex and controversial relationship between the Sioux and their conquerors yet presented ...” —The St. Louis Dispatch

The author of Coyote Warrior demolishes myths about America’s westward expansion and reveals how a pattern of fraudulent government behavior displaced Native Americans from their lands time and time again.

A stirring retelling of the Black Hawk War that brings into dramatic focus the forces struggling for control over the American frontier, Black Hawk gives new and vivid life to the heroic efforts of Black Hawk and his men, illuminating the tragic history of frontier America through the eyes of those who were cast aside in the pursuit of the new nation's manifest destiny.