Caught in the Maelstrom

“Incredibly detailed and well-documented” ( San Francisco Book Review ), a revelatory history of the actions of five Indian Nations during the Civil War. The sad plight of the Five Civilized Tribes—the Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek (Muscogee), and Seminole—during America’s Civil War is both fascinating and often overlooked in the literature. From 1861–1865, the Indians fought their own bloody civil war on lands surrounded by the Kansas Territory, Arkansas, and Texas. Clint Crowe’s magisterial Caught