The Land of the Miamis / An Account of the Struggle to Secure Possession of the North-West from the End of the Revolution until 1812

A history of the contest for control of the Old Northwest examines geography and natural resources, especially prairies and the buffalo economy, profiles tribes and their territories, and traces policies and conflicts among American settlers, British agents, and Native confederacies. It recounts early federal expeditions and frontier militias, major defeats and eventual military victories, key treaties ceding land, and the rise of native resistance led by Shawnee leaders and their spiritual movement culminating in the battle at Tippecanoe. The narrative links economic motives, British influence, and U.S. Indian policy to the opening of the Wabash and Maumee regions to settlement.