Henry S. HalbertCritiques

this 2 vol work stood for 100 years as the authority on Creek Indian Wars of 1813-14. Many recent books since 1990 add to this body of work, few surpass it.

For more than a century this Victorian work has remained the definitive history of the Creek War of 1813-1814. This is the conflict that weakened the largest Indian nation within the claimed boundaries of the United States, vaulted Andrew Jackson to national fame, and ultimately opened the Deep South to commercial exploitation through slavery. Halbert and Ball are ahead of their time in striving to understand the motives of Indians who fought in the war, rather than simply viewing them as a barrier to inevitable white domination. In this the authors were unsurpassed until 1993, when Joel Martin published Sacred Revolt, analyzing the Creek War as a religious endeavor.