A book that radically changes our understanding of North America before and after the arrival of Europeans
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Encounters at the Heart of the World" concerns the Mandan Indians, iconic Plains people whose teeming, busy towns on the upper Missouri River were for centuries at the center of the Nor[...]

Recreates one of the most overlooked chapters in American history--the smallpox epidemic that coincided with the Revolutionary War--tracing its influence on colonial life and the course of the war.[...]