Journal of the Indian Wars, or JIW was a quarterly publication on the study of the American Indian Wars. Before JIW, no periodical dedicated exclusively to this fascinating topic was available. JIW's focus was on warfare in the United States, Canada, and the Spanish borderlands from 1492 to 1890. Published articles also include personalities, policy, and military technologies. JIW was designed to satisfy both professional and lay readers with original articles of lasting value and a variety of columns of interest, plus book reviews, all enhanced with maps and illustrations. JIW's lengthy essays of substance are presented in a fresh and entertaining manner.
This issue is dedicated to battles and leaders of the early United States east of the Mississippi River. Eastern battles remain the most obscure in the history of the Indian conflicts, and those fought in the "Old Southeast" are the most obscure of all. This issue includes the following topics:
Editor's Forward
Prelude to Horseshoe's Bend: The Battles of Emuckfaw and Enotochopco
"The Carnage was Dreadful": The Battle of Horseshoe Bend
The Blackhawk War Reconsidered: A New Interpretation of its Causes and Consequences
William Clark's Journal of Maj. Gen. Anthony's Wayne's 1794 Campaign Against the Indians in Ohio
"'Fighting the Flames of a Merciless War': Secretary of War Henry Knox and the Indian War in the Old Northwest," 1790-1795
The Battle of Fallen Timbers: An Historical Perspective
Interview: A Conversation with Archaeologist G. Michael Pratt
Captain Albert Barnitz and the Battle of the Washita: New Documents, New Insights
Features: The Tippacanoe Battlefield and Museum
The Indian Wars: Organizational, Tribal, and Museum News
Thomas Online: A Beginner's Guide to Indian Wars Research on the Web
