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"""Killing over Land delves into the murky, sanguinary ground between war and peace, and provides fresh insights on homicide as as an instrument of both Native agency and settler-colonial dispossession.""--John W. Hall, author of Uncommon Defense: Indian Allies in the Black Hawk War ""Intercultural murders on the early American frontier permeate the historical literature as acts of racial hatred. But Robert M. Owens, having reconstructed and dissected one murder after another, shows that they happened for many reasons, often with far-reaching repercussions. Killing over Land also reveals that justice, when applied, came in different forms and had to be carefully negotiated.""--Colin G. Calloway, author of The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation ""With his clear and vigorous prose, Robert M. Owens draws his readers into the world of the early American frontier. Those interested in the history of American violence will find Owens's book eye-opening, while students of Native American and frontier history will find Murder in Indian Country invaluable.""--David A. Nichols, author of Peoples of the Inland Sea: Native Americans and Newcomers in the Great Lakes Region, 1600-1870"

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Robert M. Owens is Professor of History at Wichita State University. He specializes in colonial U.S. history and the Early Republic. He is the author of Mr. Jefferson’s Hammer: William Henry Harrison and the Origins of American Indian Policy (OU Press, 2007). His articles have appeared in the Journal of the Early Republic and the Journal of Illinois History.

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