Description A riveting account of the conquest of the vast American heartland that offers a vital reconsideration of the relationship between Native Americans and European colonists, and the pivotal role of the mighty Mississippi.
America's waterways were once the superhighways of travel and communication.
Cutting a central line across the landscape, with tributaries connecting the South to the Great Plains and the Great Lakes, the Mississippi River meant wealth, .
Belknap Press Masters of the middle waters: indian nations and colonial ambitions along the mississippi, hardcover/jacob f. lee
