Preface Terminology Abbreviations Introduction 1. Ulster Genesis and Atlantic Migration 2. Valley Paths to Native Lands 3. Borderland Peoples 4. Hard Neighbors 5. The Scotch-Irish French and Indian War 6. Indian Killers 7. Scotch-Irish Captives and Scotch-Irish Indians 8. Black Boys and White Savages 9. "A Scotch Irish Presbyterian Rebellion" 10. Fighting Landlords, Indians, and Taxes 11. Andrew Jackson and the Triumph of Scotch-Irish Indian Policy 12. Across the Mississippi 13. Texas and Beyond 14. How the Scotch-Irish became Americans and Americans became the Scotch-Irish Index

""Hard Neighbors is a scholarly book, well researched, deeply documented, and set in the colonial and early American past. The author's explicit aim - which he achieves admirably - is to detail the complexity of relations between Native Americans and the Scotch-Irish, and break down monolithic notions of 'white colonists' and 'European settlers.'"" -- Sara Bhatia, Washington Monthly "Colin Calloway seeks neither to celebrate nor to condemn the Scotch-Irish, but to understand them. Using all the skills of a gifted historian, he succeeds admirably in this task. Renowned for his work on Native Americans, he now offers a vivid, judicious, and insightful account of their antagonists-an elusive group of settler colonists who carved out a new American identity through violence." -- Kevin Kenny, Glucksman Professor of History, New York University "In this vivid and trenchant book, Colin Calloway deftly reveals violent frontiers of expanding settlements and persistent Native resistance. Transcending conventional profiling of the Scotch-Irish frontier folk as uniquely combative, Calloway uncovers the broad popularity of their sense of grievance towards imperial or national governments. In their disdain for elites as well as another race, the Scotch Irish literally pioneered an American nexus of assertion and complaint that endures to sway millions of voters." -- Alan Taylor, author of American Civil Wars: A Continental History, 1850-1873 "Arguing that what happened on the frontier was as significant to the foundational myth of American democracy as what happened in Philadelphia, Colin Calloway reveals how the Scotch Irish defined that myth, one born of conflict with Indigenous peoples in an ever-receding West and with the expansionism of an imperial East. Anyone who wants to follow the national narrative unspooling under these contending forces over three centuries should read this monumental and masterful account of the American past." -- Warren Hofstra, Shenandoah University "Colin Calloway seeks neither to celebrate nor to condemn the Scotch-Irish, but to understand them. Using all the skills of a gifted historian, he succeeds admirably in this task. Renowned for his work on Native Americans, he now offers a vivid, judicious, and insightful account of their antagonists-an elusive group of settler colonists who carved out a new American identity through violence." -- Kevin Kenny, Glucksman Professor of History "In this vivid and trenchant book, Colin Calloway deftly reveals violent frontiers of expanding settlements and persistent Native resistance. Transcending conventional profiling of the Scotch-Irish frontier folk as uniquely combative, Calloway uncovers the broad popularity of their sense of grievance towards imperial or national governments. In their disdain for elites as well as another race, the Scotch Irish literally pioneered an American nexus of assertion and complaint that endures to sway millions of voters." -- Alan Taylor, author of American Civil Wars: A Continental History, 1850-1873 "Arguing that what happened on the frontier was as significant to the foundational myth of American democracy as what happened in Philadelphia, Colin Calloway reveals how the Scotch Irish defined that myth, one born of conflict with Indigenous peoples in an ever-receding West and with the expansionism of an imperial East. Anyone who wants to follow the national narrative unspooling under these contending forces over three centuries should read this monumental and masterful account of the American past." -- Warren Hofstra, Shenandoah University "Hard Neighbors represents a seminal reappraisal of the early decades of American expansion." -- Peter Cozzens, Wall Street Journal "The book rests on impressive research and a deep familiarity with both the issues involved and the scholarly literature. This is sure to become a standard work, necessary to fully understand the role the Scots-Irish and their constant movement in search of new lands, but also land away from government control, played in developing a distinct American identity." -- W. H. Mulligan Jr., Choice

Colin G. Calloway is John Kimball, Jr. 1943 Professor of History and Professor of Native American Studies at Dartmouth College, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1995. He is the author of many books, including The Indian World of George Washington, which won the George Washington Book Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award.

Selling point: An intricate portrayal of the early American settlers who came to be known as Scotch-Irish, who through collusion and bloody conflict acted as the tip of the spear of white colonial expansion into Indian lands Selling point: Offers a complex depiction of Scotch-Irish interactions with Native Americans over time and across the continent Selling point: Explores historic roots of resentment and violence against government and minorities, connecting them to current tensions and the politics of resentment Selling point: Reconsiders terms like "American expansion" by focusing on the stories of violence and conflict that transformed Indian people into racial others and allowed "English settlers" to consider themselves Americans