"We now know that Jamestown survived the two bloody massacres plotted by the Powhatan Confederacy ; that the vengeful chieftain, King Philip, did not totally depopulate New England , and that neither Pontiac nor Tecumseh was strong enough to fashion an Indian alliance capable of holding back the tide of white migration.

But while the arrows and bullets were still whistling toward their targets, the outcome was not so certain. For nearly three centuries the American frontier was torn with conflict between the Indians seeking to protect their women and children from the scalping knife.

Paul Wellman has written an objective history of one of the longest wars on record. ... every major struggle between the white man and the Indians from Champlain's attack upon the Iroquois to the subjugation of the Seminoles.

Chapters: Columbus Called Them "Indians", The First Great Foe of the White Man, The Puritans and King Philip, The Terrible Iroquois, Young Washington and General Braddock, The Dream of Pontiac, Tories and Iroquois, The Greatest Indian Victory, The Fates against Tucumseh, Red Eagle and Andrew Jackson, The Sorrow of the Seminoles.