Pushing the Indians Out

Résumé du livre

"By combining history and genealogy with business experience, Charles R. Haller explores the world of land speculation in the aftermath of the Revolutionary War. Although his focus in on Western North Carolina and its extended territory of Tennessee, he asks many intriguing questions such as how did a relatively few speculators and hordes of squatters gain control, however, tenuous, of millions of acres of wilderness that extended from the Atlantic Coast to the Mississippi River? In those days of history six percent interest rates, how did the speculators obtain land for pennies an acre, or in many cases, with no money down? [...] Pushing The Indians Out by migrating immigrants covers the major facets of occupying land legally and illegally at the expense of a wide variety of Native Americans."--