A Brutal Reckoning: The Creek Indians and the Epic War for the American South

Cozzens is a master storyteller, and his book A Brutal Reckoning is a highly researched and well-told history of the encroachment on Native American territory in the Deep South, leading to the Creek War, the bloodiest in American Indian history, and the Trail of Tears.

Format: Hardback
Length: 464 pages
Publication date: 06 July 2023
Publisher: Atlantic Books

Cozzens is a master storyteller, as evidenced by his latest book, "A Brutal Reckoning: The Destruction of America's Native Tribes." The Times praised the book for its "extremely well-researched" content, while the Times Literary Supplement praised it for its "brilliant storytelling."

The book spans a vast period of history, from the devastating invasion by Spanish conquistadors in the sixteenth century to the relentless pressure from white settlers 150 years later. It tells the story of encroachment on the vast Native American territory in the Deep South, which gave rise to the Creek War, the bloodiest in American Indian history. This war involved not only white Americans and Native Americans, but also the British and the Spanish, and ultimately led to the Trail of Tears, in which the government forcibly removed the entire Creek people, as well as the neighboring Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Cherokee nations, from their homelands, leaving the way open for the conquest of the West.

No other single Indian conflict had such a significant impact on the fate of the country. Cozzens' writing is wonderfully told and brilliantly detailed, making "A Brutal Reckoning" a sweeping history of a crucial period in the destruction of America's native tribes.

Weight: 810g
Dimension: 241 x 165 x 42 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781838959043
Edition number: Main