Country Between

Michael N. McConnell is an associate professor of history at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

"McConnell shows admirable sensitivity to the plight of the Ohio refugees but not only as they were victims of circumstance. He portrays their changing but constant struggles to preserve a boundary between themselves and advancing Europeans. . . . McConnell eschews romanticism. This is history as it happened."—Journal of American History "An excellent account of Indian diplomacy in the late Colonial period."—Choice "McConnell makes a significant contribution to ethnohistory by chronicling with unprecedented precision the history of frontier interactions in the Upper Ohio Valley."—Ethnohistory "A well-written, judicious and thoughtful study supplying an essential perspective to our understanding of the colonial period . . . obligatory reading for all interested in the early history of Ohio and Pennsylvania."—Ohio History "Solid history, recommended to all who wish to learn more about Ohio's Indian heritage."—Northwest Ohio Quarterly