Anthony F. C. Wallace was University Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus, at the University of Pennsylvania.

• Introduction: Logan's Mourner The Land Companies The Indian Wars Notes on the Vanishing Aborigines Native Americans through European Eyes In Search of Ancient Americans Civilizing the Uncivilized Frontier President Jefferson's Indian Policy The Louisiana Territory Confrontation with the Old Way Return to Philosophical Hall Conclusion: Jefferson's Troubled Legacy Notes Acknowledgments List of Illustrations List of Documents Index

Whatever Wallace writes is worth reading...Wallace's analysis borrows from other works, but much of it is also new, shrewd, and useful...Wallace is attracted to interesting and complicated historical characters in whose lives culture and society sometimes seem to reduce to manifestations of individual traits and individual crises. And true to form, Wallace finds the key to Jefferson's paradoxical attitudes toward Indian peoples--and, more generally, to a contradictory and tangled history of American policies toward Indians--in his 'deeply controlling temperament.' Jefferson confused himself with the people, Wallace contends, and projected onto them his own desire for control and (they always go together) his own fear of control.

Anthony F. C. Wallace was University Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus, at the University of Pennsylvania.

• Introduction: Logan's Mourner The Land Companies The Indian Wars Notes on the Vanishing Aborigines Native Americans through European Eyes In Search of Ancient Americans Civilizing the Uncivilized Frontier President Jefferson's Indian Policy The Louisiana Territory Confrontation with the Old Way Return to Philosophical Hall Conclusion: Jefferson's Troubled Legacy Notes Acknowledgments List of Illustrations List of Documents Index

Whatever Wallace writes is worth reading...Wallace's analysis borrows from other works, but much of it is also new, shrewd, and useful...Wallace is attracted to interesting and complicated historical characters in whose lives culture and society sometimes seem to reduce to manifestations of individual traits and individual crises. And true to form, Wallace finds the key to Jefferson's paradoxical attitudes toward Indian peoples--and, more generally, to a contradictory and tangled history of American policies toward Indians--in his 'deeply controlling temperament.' Jefferson confused himself with the people, Wallace contends, and projected onto them his own desire for control and (they always go together) his own fear of control.

Anthony F. C. Wallace was University Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus, at the University of Pennsylvania.

• Introduction: Logan's Mourner The Land Companies The Indian Wars Notes on the Vanishing Aborigines Native Americans through European Eyes In Search of Ancient Americans Civilizing the Uncivilized Frontier President Jefferson's Indian Policy The Louisiana Territory Confrontation with the Old Way Return to Philosophical Hall Conclusion: Jefferson's Troubled Legacy Notes Acknowledgments List of Illustrations List of Documents Index

Whatever Wallace writes is worth reading...Wallace's analysis borrows from other works, but much of it is also new, shrewd, and useful...Wallace is attracted to interesting and complicated historical characters in whose lives culture and society sometimes seem to reduce to manifestations of individual traits and individual crises. And true to form, Wallace finds the key to Jefferson's paradoxical attitudes toward Indian peoples--and, more generally, to a contradictory and tangled history of American policies toward Indians--in his 'deeply controlling temperament.' Jefferson confused himself with the people, Wallace contends, and projected onto them his own desire for control and (they always go together) his own fear of control.