"A Pebble Hill book."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-299) and index.

Foreword: A deliberate passion / Marianne Mills -- Preface / Jay Lamar -- Introduction / Kathryn E. Holland Braund -- Causalities and consequences of the Creek War : a modern Creek perspective / Robert G. Thrower -- Thinking outside the circle : Tecumseh's 1811 mission / Gregory Evans Dowd -- "A packet from Canada" : telling conspiracy stories on the 1813 Creek frontier / Robert P. Collins -- Red Sticks / Kathryn E. Holland Braund -- Before Horseshoe : Andrew Jackson's campaigns in the Creek War prior to Horseshoe Bend / Tom Kanon -- Cherokees in the Creek War : a band of brothers / Susan M. Abram -- Horseshoe Bend : a living memorial / Ove Jensen -- Fort Jackson and the aftermath / Gregory A. Waselkov -- "We bleed our enemies in such cases to give them their senses" : Americans' unrelenting wars on the Indians of the Trans-Appalachian West, 1810-1814 / John E. Grenier -- "Where all behave well" : Fort Bowyer and the War on the Gulf, 1814-1815 / David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler -- Archaeology, geography, and the Creek War in Alabama / Craig T. Sheldon Jr. -- Digging twice : camps and historical sites associated with the War of 1812 and the Creek War of 1813-1814 / James W. Parker -- Afterword: The Western Muscogee (Creek) perspective / Ted Isham -- Appendix 1: Current preservation status of major Creek War/War of 1812 sites in Alabama -- Appendix 2: Known and potential archaeological sites.