King Philip's War NarrativesCollection of five original narratives describing the war between the Indian tribes of New England and the English colonists, known as King Philip's War. These primary source documents, all written by colonists, "bring out most vividly the terrible price which both the colonists and the Indians had to pay." -- from Foreward. |
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