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Okfuskee

A Creek Indian Town in Colonial America

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PAPERBACK

$33.00 • £26.95 • €29.50

ISBN 9780674022539

Publication Date: 09/30/2006

Short

284 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

4 halftones, 1 map

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  • Acknowledgments
  • Map: The Creeks and their neighbors, circa 1763 [by Geoff Maas]
  • Introduction: Peculiar Connections
  • I. The Town and Its Neighbors
    • 1. Okfuskee and the British, 1708–1745
    • 2. Okfuskee and the British, 1749–1774
    • 3. Leaving Okfuskee
  • II. The Town and Its People
    • 4. Agriculture and Livestock
    • 5. Newcomers in the “Old White Town”
    • 6. Big Women and Mad Men
  • Conclusion: “The Fiends of the Tallapoosie”
  • Notes
  • Index

Awards & Accolades

  • 2005 Malcolm Bell, Jr., and Muriel Barrow Bell Award, Georgia Historical Society
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