From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of William Cooper's Town comes
a dramatic and illuminating portrait of white and Native American
relations in the aftermath of the American Revolution.
The Divided Ground tells the story of two friends, a Mohawk Indian and
the son of a colonial clergyman, whose relationship helped redefine
North America. As one served American expansion by promoting Indian
dispossession and religious conversion, and the other struggled to
defend and strengthen Indian territories, the two friends became bitter
enemies. Their battle over control of the Indian borderland, that
divided ground between the British Empire and the nascent United States,
would come to define nationhood in North America. Taylor tells a
fascinating story of the far-reaching effects of the American Revolution
and the struggle of American Indians to preserve a land of their own.