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Fred Anderson, Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766. New York, 2000.

Desmond Clarke, Arthur Dobbs Esquire, 1689-1765: Surveyor-General Of Ireland Prospector And Governor Of North Carolina. London, 1958.

Emma Lila Fundaburk, ed. South Eastern Indians Life Portraits: A Catalogue of Pictures, 1564-1860. Alabama, 1958.

Eric Hinderaker. At The Edge of Empire: The Backcountry In British North America. Baltimore, 2003.

James G. Leyburn, The Scotch-Irish: A Social History. Chapel Hill, 1962.

James H. Merrell, The Indians' New World: Catawbas And Their Neighbors From European Contact Through The Era of Removal. New York, 1989.

Robert W. Ramsey, Carolina Cradle: Settlement of the Northwest Carolina Frontier, 1747-1762. Chapel Hill, 1964.

W. Stitt Robinson, The Southern Colonial Frontier, 1607-1763. Albuquerque, 1979.

Timothy Silver, The New Face On The Countryside: Indians, Colonists, and Slaves in South Atlantic Forests, 1500-1800. Cambridge, 1990.

Alfred M. Waddell. A Colonial Officer and His Times, 1754-1773: A Biographical Sketch Of General Waddell. Wilmington, NC, 1889.

Also see our REENACTORS page for historically accurate guidelines & applications.