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Frontier Rebels

The Fight for Independence in the American West, 1765-1776

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By: Patrick Spero
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In Frontier Rebels, historian Patrick Spero tells the story of the Black Boys, a band of rebels whose protests ignited the American Revolution.

In 1765, as the Stamp Act riled eastern seaports, frontiersmen clashed with the British Empire over another issue: Indian relations. When British officials launched a risky diplomatic expedition into the American interior to open trade with the Indian warrior Pontiac, the Black Boys formed to stop it.

Distrustful of Native neighbors and suspicious of imperial aims, the Black Boys led an uprising that threatened the future of Britain's empire. Clashing with unscrupulous traders, daring diplomats, Native warriors, and imperious British officials, the Black Boys evolved into an organized political movement that resisted the Crown years before the Declaration of Independence.

A fast-paced book examining an overlooked conflict, Frontier Rebels brings to life a forgotten cast of characters and sheds new light on the origins of American Independence.

©2018 Patrick Spero (P)2018 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books Americas Colonial Period Europe Great Britain Indigenous Peoples Revolution & Founding United States Native American Imperialism Warrior

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The REAL story of how the American Revolution began. The reader has some pronunciation issues (he ain't from aroun' here), but he has told the true and accurate story of the Black Boys. Anyone who thinks they know the colonial and revolutionary period seriously needs to read this book.

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incredible wealth of information formed also into a very good story. written in a different manner such detailed and comprehensive material might seem boring. Seriously one of my favorite revolutionary era (including pre and post eraworks)! JUST FANTASTIC

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Often left out of American History as a mere footnote, tagged the French and Indian War, this brutal conflict, with its myriad of players, cultures, and beliefs, comes to life in this well researched history of what was the Real American Revolution. Born from a stormy and yet somewhat stable collection of ethnicities, we witness individual angst aggressively explode in the mindset and temperament of the frontier as it evolves to challenge colonial absentee authority with notions of individual rights; the complex realignment of human ideals and shifting allegiances brewed in the fear and tension of survival. All is vividly shown through dialogue, first hand accounts, documents, and recollections of participants woven into an extraordinary period of history.
Important and well done.

Revolution before the Revolution

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I enjoyed the story and learned a lot in a fun way. The would recommend.

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