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Praise for Jackson's Way

"A compelling account of Jackson's Indian-fighting days . . . as well a grand sweep of the conquest of the trans-Appalachian West, a more complex, bloody, and intrigue-filled episode than is generally appreciated. . . . Mr. Buchanan writes with style and insight. . . . This is history at its best."
-The Wall Street Journal

"An excellent study . . . of an area and a time period too long neglected by historians . . . provides valuable new information, particularly on the Indians."
-Robert Remini, author of Andrew Jackson and His Indian Wars

"John Buchanan has written a book that explodes with action and drama on virtually every page. Yet the complex story of the birth of the American West never loses its focus-Andrew Jackson's improbable rise to fame and power. This is an American saga, brilliantly told by a master of historical narrative."
-Thomas Fleming, author of Duel: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Future of America

From John Buchanan, the highly acclaimed author of The Road to Guilford Courthouse, comes a compulsively readable account that begins in 1780 amidst the maelstrom of revolution and continues throughout the three tumultuous decades that would decide the future course of this nation. Jackson's Way artfully reconstructs the era and the region that made Andrew Jackson's reputation as "Old Hickory," a man who was so beloved that men voted for him fifteen years after his death. Buchanan resurrects the remarkable man behind the legend, bringing to life the thrilling details of frontier warfare and of Jackson's exploits as an Indian fighter-and reassessing the vilification that has since been heaped on him because of his Indian policy. Culminating with Jackson's defeat of the British at New Orleans-the stunning victory that made him a national hero-this gripping narrative shows us how a people's obsession with land and opportunity and their charismatic leader's quest for an empire produced what would become the United States of America that we know today.
Illustrations and Maps.

Preface.

Prologue.

Beginnings.

Vanguard of Empire.

The Frontier.

The Cumberland Salient.

Under Siege.

"I Am a Native of This Nation and of Rank in It".

The Rise of Andrew Jackson.

Buchanan's Station and Nickajack.

"When You Have Read This Letter over Three Times, Then Burn It".

Major General Andrew Jackson.

Conspiracy and Blood.

Old Hickory.

Massacre.

"Time Is Not to Be Lost".

Mutiny.

They "Whipped Captain Jackson, and Run Him to the Coosa River".

Horseshoe Bend.

"We Have Conquered".

"I Act without the Orders of Government".

"To Arms!"

"I Will Smash Them, so Help Me God!"

Beauty and Booty.

Epilogue.

Notes.

Selected Bibliography.

Index.

Sujets

Histoire

List of Presidents of the United States

The Battle of New Orleans

Old Hickory

History of the United States

United States

History

John Buchanan

Andrew Jackson

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Publié par	Turner Publishing Company
Date de parution	21 avril 2008
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780470321584
Langue	English

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J ACKSON S W AY
General Andrew Jackson, 1817, by Samuel Lovett Waldo (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1906, 06.197)
J ACKSON S W AY
A NDREW J ACKSON AND THE P EOPLE OF THE W ESTERN W ATERS

J OHN B UCHANAN

John Wiley Sons, Inc.
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Copyright 2001 by John Buchanan. All rights reserved
Published by John Wiley Sons, Inc.
Published simultaneously in Canada
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This publication is designed to provide accurate and authoritative information in regard to the subject matter covered. It is sold with the understanding that the publisher is not engaged in rendering professional services. If professional advice or other expert assistance is required, the services of a competent professional person should be sought.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:
Buchanan, John
Jackson s way : Andrew Jackson and the people of the western waters / John Buchanan.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
ISBN 0-471-28253-7 (cloth : alk. paper)
1. Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845. 2. Southwest, Old-History. 3. United States-Territorial expansion. 4. United States-Politics and government-1783-1809. 5. United States-Politics and government-1809-1817. 6. Frontier and pioneer life-Southwest, Old. 7. Pioneers-Southwest, Old-History-19th century. 8. Indians of North America-Wars-Southwest, Old. 9. Generals-United States-Biography. 10. Presidents-United States-Biography. I. Title.
E382 .B89 2001
976-dc21
00-040818
In memory of my parents ,
Charles Walker and Helen Hutchins Buchanan ,
and Susi s parents ,
Georg and Babette Erhardt
C ONTENTS
Illustrations and Maps
Preface
Prologue
Chapter 1 Beginnings
Chapter 2 Vanguard of Empire
Chapter 3 The Frontier
Chapter 4 The Cumberland Salient
Chapter 5 Under Siege
Chapter 6 I Am a Native of This Nation of Rank in It
Chapter 7 The Rise of Andrew Jackson
Chapter 8 Buchanan s Station and Nickajack
Chapter 9 When You Have Read This Letter over Three Times, Then Burn It
Chapter 10 Major General Andrew Jackson
Chapter 11 Conspiracy and Blood
Chapter 12 Old Hickory
Chapter 13 Massacre
Chapter 14 Time Is Not to Be Lost
Chapter 15 Mutiny
Chapter 16 They Whipped Captain Jackson, and Run Him to the Coosa River
Chapter 17 Horseshoe Bend
Chapter 18 We Have Conquered
Chapter 19 I Act without the Orders of Government
Chapter 20 To Arms!
Chapter 21 I Will Smash Them, so Help Me God!
Chapter 22 Beauty and Booty
Epilogue
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
I LLUSTRATIONS AND M APS
ILLUSTRATIONS
The Long Hunters
James Robertson
Charlotte Reeves Robertson
Hoboithle Mico
William Augustus Bowles
Rachel Jackson
William Blount
John Sevier
Thomas Jefferson
Aaron Burr and Richmond Hill
Pushmataha
Tecumseh
Benjamin Hawkins
Tustennuggee Emathla
General John Coffee
Major John Reid
Edward Livingston
MAPS
East Tennessee River Systems
Southeastern United States, 1798
The Creek War, 1813-1814
New Orleans and Environs, 1815
P REFACE
The struggle for the great empire that lay between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River began a century before the American victory in the War of the Revolution and the recognition by Great Britain in 1783 of the United States of America. The contest would continue for another four decades. The prize was all of that territory south of the Ohio River-the modern states of Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana. Florida also hung in the balance.
It is a tale once familiar to Americans but little known today. For the near total emphasis in our time on the occupation of the country between the Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean, with its endless streams of horse Indians and cavalry and cowboys and those blips on historical radar, homicidal gunfighters, has rendered hazy in our national memory that earlier, far greater conflict. Yet in its significance for the future of North America, in savagery and loss of life, plot and counterplot, larger-than-life players, and an outcome that remained for contemporaries unpredictable almost to the end, the struggle for what was once called the Old Southwest was an epic, whereas the filling of the trans-Mississippi West was but an interlude between a fight for empire and the emergence of the United States as a world power in the twentieth century. To put it in military terms, the earlier conflict was a war, the latter a mopping-up operation.
Doubters may point to the Texas Revolution (1835-1836) and the Mexican War (1846-1848) as major exceptions. But the Texans revolt against Mexico lasted only seven months and had one decisive battle-an eighteen-minute skirmish, really-at San Jacinto, where the Mexican army melted at first contact. In the Mexican War, the big, decisive battles were fought in Mexico.
Historians have traditionally taken liberties with the geography of the Old Southwest, and I shall join them in doing so. The heart of the territory was Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi. I shall have little to say about Kentucky, for it has received considerable attention since the magical name of Kaintuck surfaced in colonial literature, and became the topic of innumerable unrecorded discussions in genteel eastern drawing rooms and before rude hearths of long-crumbled frontier cabins.
Tennessee is our destination. And Mississippi and Alabama, Louisiana and the Florida Panhandle, and western Georgia. Under the Peace of Paris of 1783 most of this vast country was ceded to the United States by Great Britain, who had won it from France in the French and Indian War (1754-1763). But Spain had reconquered Florida from Britain during the American Revolution, still held Louisiana, had garrisons at Natchez and St. Louis, and claimed territory northward into Tennessee. And there were Frenchmen who had dreams of regaining the Mississippi Valley and were prepared to act on them.
Most of the Old Southwest, however, was Indian country, the ancestral homes of powerful, unconquered nations who refused to recognize a scrap of paper written in Paris. The Creeks were the most powerful. Their towns ranged from western Georgia to central Alabama. An offshoot of the Creeks, the Seminoles, were well established in Spanish Florida. The numerous Choctaws controlled lower and central Mississippi. Northern Mississippi was the home of a kindred people, the Chickasaws, who also effectively claimed as their hunting grounds the entire western half of Tennessee, from a line roughly parallel with Nashville to the Mississippi River, and the southwestern corner of Kentucky. The Cherokee towns were in the southeastern corner of Tennessee and northwestern Georgia, but they claimed as hunting grounds a vast area stretching north through the Cumberland country of Tennessee and on through Kentucky to the Ohio River. A breakaway element of Cherokees known as the Chickamaugas had settled in the Tennessee River Valley on Chickamauga Creek near the present site of Chattanooga, Tennessee, and eventually spread their Five Lower Towns west along the Tennessee River Valley into the northern Alabama hill country. Other contenders, the Shawnees and allied tribes in Ohio and Indiana, still contested Kentucky with the Americans and hunted and raided southward into southwestern Virginia and Tennessee.
That is why the bloody border fighting, which is one of the defining themes of American history, is often placed where it belongs-front and center-as I try to tell what happened, how it happened, why it happened. For into this country bitterly hostile to their presence came an aggressive, swarming people called by their foes Americans. Among them were many players, a few still famous, others shooting stars. But most were mute and faceless, occasionally revealed by chance and the pens of others. They came first as long hunters who ranged hundreds of miles in advance of the frontier in search of game and came home with wondrous tales of newfound lands, then families and small parties, then as hosts over mountains, along valleys, down rivers, through forests, ignoring treaties and royal governors and presidents, determined to take the land and hold it in Defiance of every Power. The People of the Western Waters, as the emigrants west of the Appalachians were called, found leaders who wanted what they wanted, and eventually they found the greatest of them all. Gradually, then quite suddenly, Andrew Jackson, one of the most powerful figures in American history, will move to center stage and thereafter dominate our story.
Now to turn to a few technical matters. In this Preface I used the names of modern states, yet none of those states had been created when our story begins, and only one, Georgia, was one of the original thirteen states. To avoid confusion for the modern reader, however, I have used the names of states to make the geography clear. Explanations will appear in their proper places in the text during the course of our story.
Which brings me to the subject of endnotes. Readers for whom notes are annoying distractions from the flow of the narrative may safely ignore them. My general rule on notes is that if information is important enough to i