Michael N. McConnell is an associate professor of history at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is the author of A Country Between: The Upper Ohio Valley and¿Its People, 1724¿1774 (Nebraska 1992).
The Ohio Country in the eighteenth century was a zone of international strife, and the Delawares, Shawnees, Iroquois, and other natives who had taken refuge there were caught between the territorial ambitions of the French and British. "A Country Between" is unique in assuming the perspective of the Indians who struggled to maintain their autonomy in a geographical tinderbox.
