Jacksonland: A Great American Land Grab
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Authors: Steve Inskeep
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Instant City: Life and Death in Karachi
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Copyright © 2015 by Steve Inskeep
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ISBN 978-1-101-61777-9
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To Carolee, Ava, and Ana
Those who profess inviolable truthfulness must speak of all without partiality and without hatred.
Tacitus
Prologue: The Indian Map and the White Man’s Map
One
: Every Thing Is to Be Feared
Two
: Urge On All Those Cherokees
Three
: Stamping His Foot for War
Four
: It Was Dark Before We Finished Killing Them
Five
: Send a Few Late Newspapers by the Bearer
Six
: I Am Fond of Hearing That There Is a Peace
Seven
: Every Thing That Was Dear to Me
Eight
: Address Their Fears and Indulge Their Avarice 7
Nine
: Men of Cultivated Understandings
Eleven
: This Unexpected Weapon of Defence
Twelve
: Ominous of Other Events
Thirteen
: The Taverns Were Unknown to Us
Interlude: Hero’s Progress, 1824–1825
Fourteen
: Liberty, Equality, and True Social Order
Fifteen
: Clay Is Politically Damd
Sixteen
: We Wish to Know Whether You Could Protect Us
Seventeen
: We Are Politically Your Friends and Brethren
Eighteen
: This Is a Straight and Good Talk
Nineteen
: The Blazing Light of the Nineteenth Century
Twenty
: They Have Been Led to Look Upon Us as Unjust
Twenty-one
: The Expediency of Setting Fire
Twenty-two
: Sway the Empire of Affection
Checks and Balances, 1830–1832
Democracy in America, 1833–1835
Twenty-six
: The Purest Love of Formalities
Twenty-seven
: I Have the Right to Address You
Twenty-eight
: We Are Yet Your Friends
Twenty-nine
: Should They Be Satisfied with the Character of That Country
Thirty
: Five Millions of Dollars
Thirty-one
: The War Department Does Not Understand These People
Thirty-two
: Perchance, You May Have Heard That the Cherokees Are in Trouble
