The Old Southwest, 1795-1830: Frontiers in Conflict

Thomas D. Clark and John D. W. Guice analyze the many disputes that resulted when the United States pushed aside a hundred thousand Indians and overtook the final vestiges of Spanish, French, and British presence in the wilderness. Leaders such as Andrew Jackson, who emerged during the Creek War, introduced new policies of Indian removal and state making, along with a decided willingness to let adverturous settlers open up the new territories as a part of the Manifest Destiny of a growing country.