History of Buffalo (Two Volumes, Complete) Tapa blanda - 2002

Bowie: Heritage Books, Inc.. New. 2002. Paperback. 2 vols. This work as a whole deals with western New York prior to settlement; is largely based on documentary sources, and testifies to much painstaking research. The first volume embraces the period from the first records of white man's interaction with the Iroquois, down to the breaking up of their confederacy after Sullivan's campaign during the American Revolution. It includes the wars of the Iroquois with the Erighs (Eries) , remarks of early travelers, history of the Iroquois confederacy, missionaries, history of the Senecas, the French and Indian War, Sir William Johnson, Joseph and Molly Brant, the Battle of Lake George, French capture of Oswego, expedition against Fort Niagara, Pontiac's Conspiracy, the Treaty of Fort Stanwix, hostilities on the western frontier, the Battle of Oriskany, murder of Jane McRea, Burgoyne's campaign, the Cherry Valley massacre, Catharine Montour, Sullivan's campaign, and the first… Leer más