Creek Country

Creek Country
Author: Robbie Ethridge
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2004-07-21
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0807861553

Reconstructing the human and natural environment of the Creek Indians in frontier Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee, Robbie Ethridge illuminates a time of wrenching transition. Creek Country presents a compelling portrait of a culture in crisis, of its resiliency in the face of profound change, and of the forces that pushed it into decisive, destructive conflict. Ethridge begins in 1796 with the arrival of U.S. Indian Agent Benjamin Hawkins, whose tenure among the Creeks coincided with a period of increased federal intervention in tribal affairs, growing tension between Indians and non-Indians, and pronounced strife within the tribe. In a detailed description of Creek town life, the author reveals how social structures were stretched to accommodate increased engagement with whites and blacks. The Creek economy, long linked to the outside world through the deerskin trade, had begun to fail. Ethridge details the Creeks' efforts to diversify their economy, especially through experimental farming and ranching, and the ecological crisis that ensued. Disputes within the tribe culminated in the Red Stick War, a civil war among Creeks that quickly spilled over into conflict between Indians and white settlers and was ultimately used by U.S. authorities to justify their policy of Indian removal.

Rabbit Creek Country

Rabbit Creek Country
Author: Jon Thiem
Publisher: UNM Press
Total Pages: 473
Release: 2008
Genre: Electronic books
ISBN: 0826345379

The stories of three former Colorado ranch owners and their unconventional living arrangement opens a window on life in the West throughout the last century.

Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country

Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country
Author: Pam Houston
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2019-01-29
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0393285499

Winner of the 2020 Reading the West Advocacy Award Winner of the 2020 Colorado Book Award for Creative Nonfiction "This is a book for all of us, right now." —Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild On her 120-acre homestead high in the Colorado Rockies, beloved writer Pam Houston learns what it means to care for a piece of land and the creatures on it. Elk calves and bluebirds mark the changing seasons, winter temperatures drop to 35 below, and lightning sparks a 110,000-acre wildfire, threatening her century-old barn and all its inhabitants. Through her travels from the Gulf of Mexico to Alaska, she explores what ties her to the earth, the ranch most of all. Alongside her devoted Irish wolfhounds and a spirited troupe of horses, donkeys, and Icelandic sheep, the ranch becomes Houston’s sanctuary, a place where she discovers how the natural world has mothered and healed her after a childhood of horrific parental abuse and neglect. In essays as lucid and invigorating as mountain air, Deep Creek delivers Houston’s most profound meditations yet on how “to live simultaneously inside the wonder and the grief… to love the damaged world and do what I can to help it thrive.”

Creek Paths and Federal Roads

Creek Paths and Federal Roads
Author: Angela Pulley Hudson
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2010-06-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 0807898279

In Creek Paths and Federal Roads, Angela Pulley Hudson offers a new understanding of the development of the American South by examining travel within and between southeastern Indian nations and the southern states, from the founding of the United States until the forced removal of southeastern Indians in the 1830s. During the early national period, Hudson explains, settlers and slaves made their way along Indian trading paths and federal post roads, deep into the heart of the Creek Indians' world. Hudson focuses particularly on the creation and mapping of boundaries between Creek Indian lands and the states that grew up around them; the development of roads, canals, and other internal improvements within these territories; and the ways that Indians, settlers, and slaves understood, contested, and collaborated on these boundaries and transit networks. While she chronicles the experiences of these travelers--Native, newcomer, free, and enslaved--who encountered one another on the roads of Creek country, Hudson also places indigenous perspectives squarely at the center of southern history, shedding new light on the contingent emergence of the American South.

Country Rain

Country Rain
Author: Cheyenne McCray
Publisher: Cheyenne McCray LLC
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2021-10-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1939778123

In this cowboy romance, young love is given a second—and final—chance. Over the passing years, Rancher Colt McLeod never stopped loving Marlee Fox, but she has refused to speak to him since high school. On a not-so-accidental encounter, he captures her attention and the promise of a dance. Marlee falls in love with Colt all over again but knows she can’t take another heartbreak like the first. If he betrays her trust one more time, they are over forever. The girl who broke up Colt and Marlee has returned to the small town of King Creek. Now a grown woman, she stalks him and turns her vengeful attention on Marlee. Colt will do everything in his power to protect Marlee, even if it means pushing her away to keep her safe.

The Second Creek War

The Second Creek War
Author: John T. Ellisor
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 509
Release: 2020-03-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 149621708X

Historians have traditionally viewed the Creek War of 1836 as a minor police action centered on rounding up the Creek Indians for removal to Indian Territory. Using extensive archival research, John T. Ellisor demonstrates that in fact the Second Creek War was neither brief nor small. Indeed, armed conflict continued long after peace was declared and the majority of Creeks had been sent west. Ellisor’s study also broadly illuminates southern society just before the Indian removals, a time when many blacks, whites, and Natives lived in close proximity in the Old Southwest. In the Creek country, also called New Alabama, these ethnic groups began to develop a pluralistic society. When the 1830s cotton boom placed a premium on Creek land, however, dispossession of the Natives became an economic priority. Dispossessed and impoverished, some Creeks rose in armed revolt both to resist removal west and to drive the oppressors from their ancient homeland. Yet the resulting Second Creek War that raged over three states was fueled both by Native determination and by economic competition and was intensified not least by the massive government-sponsored land grab that constituted Indian removal. Because these circumstances also created fissures throughout southern society, both whites and blacks found it in their best interests to help the Creek insurgents. This first book-length examination of the Second Creek War shows how interethnic collusion and conflict characterized southern society during the 1830s.

Country Proud

Country Proud
Author: Linda Lael Miller
Publisher: HQN Books
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2021-04-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1488076456

Linda Lael Miller creates vibrant characters and stories I defy you to forget.—Debbie Macomber, #1 New York Times bestselling author First love always burns brighter… Sheriff Eli Garrett is grateful for the good things in this life. Like his two best friends since childhood. A job that he loves. Enough land under the big skies of Montana to make a man feel free. And Brynne Bailey, finally back home in Painted Pony Creek to stay. Brynne was his high school sweetheart—and the girl he’d betrayed all those years ago. But now, with a new year right around the corner, it’s time to make amends and see what the future might hold…if she’ll let him. Brynne has one rule for herself: never date another cop. She made that mistake once before, and her heart still hasn’t recovered from losing the kids she’d started to think of as her own. So she’s happy to put the past behind her and be Eli’s friend. Anything else is out of the question…until one electric kiss changes everything between them. But when a case blows wide open, putting Eli in danger, Brynne will confront her biggest fear. Some rules are meant to be broken and some hearts are worth the risk for a second chance with your first love. Don’t miss COUNTRY BORN, the next book in Linda Lael Miller’s Painted Pony Creek series about three best buddies whose strength, honor and independence exemplify the Montana land they love. A Painted Pony Creek Novel Book 1 - Country Strong Book 2 - Country Proud Book 3 - Country Born

Citizens Creek

Citizens Creek
Author: Lalita Tademy
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2014
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1476753040

Buying his freedom after serving as a translator during the American Indian wars, Cow Tom builds a remarkable life and legacy that is sustained by his courageous granddaughter.

If the Creek Don't Rise

If the Creek Don't Rise
Author: Leah Weiss
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2017-08-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1492647462

"An immersive and deeply emotional reading experience—especially satisfying for readers who love richly drawn characters and a strong sense of place" —NPR He's gonna be sorry he ever messed with me and Loretta Lynn. Sadie Blue has been a wife for fifteen days. That's long enough to know she should have never hitched herself to Roy Tupkin, even with the baby. Sadie is desperate to make her own mark on the world, but in remote Appalachia, a ticket out of town is hard to come by and hope often gets stomped out. When a stranger sweeps into Baines Creek and knocks things off kilter, Sadie finds herself with an unexpected lifeline...if she can just figure out how to use it. Fans of The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek will love this intimate insight into a fiercely proud, tenacious community and relish the voices of the forgotten folks of Baines Creek. With a colorful cast of characters and a flair for the Southern Gothic, If the Creek Don't Rise is a debut novel bursting with heart, honesty, and homegrown grit. "Like all great southern writers, Leah Weiss's magic turns the local into the universal." —Wiley Cash, New York Times bestselling author, on All The Little Hopes

Musky Country

Musky Country
Author: Willow Creek Press
Publisher:
Total Pages: 168
Release: 1995
Genre: Nature
ISBN:

-- The first coffee table-type book dedicated to America's premier freshwater big game fish. A handsome full-color volume which accurately depicts the life history, research, lore and mystique that surround the fascinating muskellunge. -- The best known names in the world of the muskellunge today have teamed up to provide a highly informative and colorful text. Expert biologists, historians and fishermen share their knowledge for this definitive look at the musky. From aboriginal use through modern day, Musky Country explores the great risks relationship with man. U.S. presidents and Hollywood starlets have found themselves drawn into the culture that is musky fishing. Strikingly illustrated with full-color and historic photographs.