Alabama's Frontiers and the Rise of the Old South

"A well-written, nicely comprehensive, and inclusive social history of Alabama before and immediately after statehood."-H-AmIndian

Alabama endured warfare, slave trading, squatting, and speculating on its path to becoming America's twenty-second state, and Daniel S. Dupre brings its captivating frontier history to life in Alabama's Frontiers and the Rise of the Old South.

Dupre's vivid narrative begins when Hernando de Soto first led hundreds of armed Europeans into the region during the fall of 1540. Although this early invasion was defeated, Spain, France, and England would each vie for control over the area's natural resources, struggling to conquer it with the same intensity and ferocity that the Native Americans showed in defending their homeland. Although early frontiersmen and Native Americans eventually established an uneasy truce, the region spiraled back into war in the nineteenth century, as the newly formed American nation demanded more and more land for settlers. Dupre captures the riveting saga of the forgotten struggles and savagery in Alabama's-and America's-frontier days.

"An introduction to the interaction of European powers, the United States, and Indian tribes in Alabama and the Southeast."-Western Historical Quarterly

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Daniel S. Dupre

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Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part One: Beginnings

1. La Florida and the Center of the World
2. The Indians' Frontier
   Part Two: The Imperial Frontier
3. The Birth of the Creeks
4. Trade and the Search for Order
   Part Three: The Settlers' Frontier
5. Ordering Alabama's Frontier
6. Settlements and Transformations
7. The Creek War
8. The Cotton Frontier
   Epilogue