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Article: What the Indians wanted but didn't get.(BOOKS)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- February 26, 2006
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Byline: Roger K. Miller, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
H. L. Mencken defined a historian as an unsuccessful novelist, but I should have thought it was the other way 'round.
For evidence of the strong narrative potentialities of contemporary historians we need look no further than Alan Taylor's "William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic," a winner of the Pulitzer and Bancroft prizes a decade ago that at times is as absorbing as any thriller.
Mr. Taylor's latest work, "The Divided Ground: Indians, Settlers, and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution," does not rise quite to that level ...