ASW: America’s Very First War I

Map of Georgia, its rivers, and its major cities with the Oconee River Basin highlighted (L)

Map of the Oconee Basin with greater detail to show local creeks (R).
Map of the Oconee River Basin. Created by Anna Baynes (UGA River Basin Center)

For the very first episode, Trevor is joined by Asha (@HerboAnarchist) of the “Swords, Sorcery, and Socialism” podcast to explain Secret Wars and discuss the first ever war fought by the United States’ armed forces after gaining independence: a border dispute between Georgia and the Muskogee (Creek) Confederacy from 1785-1790.
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Saunt – A New Order of Things: Property, Power, and the Transformation of the Creek Indians, 1733-1816
Scurry – The Oconee War Parts 1-3
Smith – History of the Georgia Militia, 1783-1861
Chappell – Georgia History Stories
Coulter – Elijah Clarke’s Foreign Intrigues and the “Trans-Oconee Republic”
Haynes – Patrolling the Border: Theft and Violence on the Creek-Georgia Frontier, 1770-1796
Kokomoor – Let Us Try to Make Each Other Happy, and Not Wretched”: the Creek-Georgian Frontier
Kokomoor – Creeks, Federalists, and the Idea of Coexistence in the Early Republic
Scurry – A Considerable Tract of Country

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