Reviews
"Succeeds very well in its overall objective of reorienting our perspective on frontier outposts. The uneasy symbiosis of military and native communities at these sites, the ways in which they cooperated in trade and survival, and the reasons why they fought and grew apart are expertly reconstructed in these pages."
--PA Magazine of History and Biography
"… an innovative and novel study…"
--Bryan Rindfleisch, H-Net Reviews
"Ingram provides uncommon depth and detail in demonstrating Indian influence at these five forts within the localized world of each community."
--Journal of American History
"Demonstrates the importance of forts not only for military and imperial history but also for shaping the history and culture of the societies in their regions. His well-written, thoroughly researched book adds considerably to our knowledge of the North American frontier."
--Journal of Interdisciplinary History
“Offers readers interesting snapshots of life at these five frontier forts, all of them hotly contested places in the mid-eighteenth century… Ingram makes a powerful case for the local nature of the British frontier.”
--Journal of American Ethnic History