| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 35.2

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Book Review

The Indian Frontier, 1763–1846. By R. Douglas Hurt. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2002. xvii + 300 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $45.00, cloth; $21.95, paper.)

The Indian Frontier is primarily about British, Spanish, Mexican, and American policy and military initiatives as they unfolded in Indian Country. It chronicles a continent of histories in a clear and generally reliable if inevitably incomplete manner. The book's organization is imperial and geographical, as is evident in all but one of the nine chapter titles. The one exception is: "The Black Hawk War," a brief history of that 1832 conflict within the larger context of northern Indian removal. Hurt states that Black Hawk "caused the deaths of most of his band," and he never explains why this relatively small war, of all those that disrupted and destroyed lives between 1763 and 1846, deserves so much attention, more than that given to the American Revolution, for example (p. 182). Meanwhile, the Second Seminole War (1835–1842) gets no more than a mention. In a book organized largely around policy and warfare, this costly Floridian war, the most lethal to American soldiers of any war ever fought against Indians, is a serious omission.

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