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John Walton Caughey
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McGillivray of the Creeks
An Indian perspective into native and Euroamerican diplomacy in the South First published in 1939, McGillivray of the Creeks is a unique mix of primary and secondary sources for the study of American Indian history in the Southeast. The historian John Walton Caughey's brief but definitive biography of Creek leader Alexander McGillivray (1750-1793) is coupled with 214 letters between McGillivray and Spanish and American political officials. The volume offers distinctive firsthand insights into Creek and Euroamerican diplomacy in Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi in the aftermath of the American Revolution as well as a glimpse into how historians have viewed the controversial Creek leader. McG...
California
Includes information on Juan Bautista Anza, Jr., Apache Indians, Architecture, pearls and pearl fishing, Concepcion Arguello, cattle and cattle raising, Chinese, furs and fur trade, discovery of gold, Alexander Baranof, California Indians, lynch law, mines and mining, missions, Poney Express, presidios, construction of the transcontinental railroad, Russia and the Russians, Russian American Fur Company, Nikolai Rezanof, etc.
Los Angeles
"Its intelligent combination of essays reveals much about Los Angeles which does not always find its way into socio-historical texts about the area. The editors' remarks preceding each essay expertly bind the book together. I suspect it will wind up as one of the more dog-eared volumes on my shelf."—Mayor Tom Bradley of Los Angeles
