| Book Review | Indiana Magazine of History, 101.1

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The Indian Frontier, 1763–1846

By R. Douglas Hurt

(Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2002. Pp. xvii, 300. Maps, illustrations, chronology, notes, bibliography, index. Clothbound, $45.00; paperbound, $21.95.)

Any scholar who studies Native American history, the American West, or Indian-White relations prior to 1850 will find few surprises in this book. Nonetheless, they should take note of it. R. Douglas Hurt, a prolific author and chair of the history department at Purdue University, has taken it upon himself to produce a concise one-volume overview of nine distinct but overlapping frontier regions over eight extremely complicated decades. Major players in his broad survey include civil, religious, and military figures of Spanish, French, English, and American origins. Central also are leaders and members of the Iroquois, Shawnee, Sauk, Cherokee, Comanche, Chickasaw, Mesquakie, Seminole, Dakota, Ute and numerous other Indian nations. With such an immense cast of characters, multiple and ever-shifting frontier regions, continual changes over time, and no central narrative to hold all of his disparate parts together, Hurt's project seems destined to fail. Yet, somehow, it doesn't.

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