Creek Mary's Blood

The remarkable saga of Creek Indian Mary Musgrove and her descendants, whose lives parallel the American story through two momentous centuries In Creek Mary's Blood, Dee Brown fictionalizes the astonishing true story of Mary Musgroveborn in 1700 to a Creek tribal chiefand five generations of her family. By tracing her struggles with colonists in Georgia, and then the lives of her two sons (one born to a white trader and the other to a Cherokee warrior), Brown's novel creates a gripping panorama of the American Indian experience in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. His narrative spans colonial rebellion, the Trail of Tears, and the Civil Warin which Mary's descendants fought on both sides of the conflict.   This ebook features an illustrated biography of Dee Brown including rare photos from the author's personal collection.