Red Gentlemen and White Savages: Indians, Federalists, and the Search for Order on the American Frontier

by David Andrew Nichols

Red Gentlemen and White Savages argues that after the devastation of the American Revolutionary War, the main concern of Federalist and Indian leaders was not the transfer of land, but the restoration of social order on the frontier. Nichols focuses on the "middle ground" of Indian treaty conferences, where, in a series of encounters framed by the rituals of Native American diplomacy and the rules of Anglo-American gentility, U.S. officials...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813927684
• ISBN13: 9780813927688
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.2"