This volume rebuilds that exciting decade using clues from numerous archives, privately held records, museum collections, and even the soil where early members planted corn and homes.
Nathaniel Hawthorne, known for his exploration of Puritanism and his fascination with the human condition, drew inspiration for this work from his own life experiences and observations of society.
For America’s Native peoples, the effect of the massive migration was no less than ruinous. The impact that tens of thousands of intruders had on Native peoples and their homelands is at the center of this story, not on its margins.