Hunted like a wolf, Milton Meltzer

Hunted like a wolf, the story of the Seminole war, Milton Meltzer

"I have been hunted like a wolf and now I am about to be sent away like a dog." —Halleck, a Seminole leader, July 1842

The white men are as thick as the leaves in the hammock; they come upon us thicker every year. They may shoot us, drive our women and children night and day; they may chain our hands and feet, but the red man's heart will be always free.

So said Seminole leader Coacoochee nearing the end of seven long years of terror in Florida. From 1835 to 1842, Washington waged a violent war upon the Seminole and their allies, using any measure, including treachery and fraud, to drive them from their lands. A ragged, starving handful of guerrillas, the Seminole Indians and blacks managed to resist against the invading American army ten times their number, defying the skill of six eminent generals.

A landmark work on one of the most important, but least written about Indian Wars, Hunted Like a Wolf explores the choices facing the Seminole as whites gradually encroached on their land, and the sacrifices they made in choosing to resist. The Second Seminole War was a war over slavery as well as territory, for living among the Seminole were black men and women some runaway slaves, some free-willing to fight alongside their Indian brothers for the territory they considered their own.

The war was longest of the Indian Wars, and the costliest in money and human life. But most importantly, in the story of the Seminole War can be seen all the forces of America's terrible racial history, the consequences of which we are only beginning to understand.

Details

• Hardcover with dust jacket (very good)
• First Edition, First impression 
• ISBN: 9781561643059
• Condition: Very Good 
  
• Publisher: Pineapple Press