... a detailed history of Virginia’s founding and early growth, which examines the socio-political interaction of indigenous peoples and English settlers.

Informative and engaging, A Brave and Cunning Prince challenges conventional wisdom about Pocahontas, Captain John Smith and, most important, the early encounters between the Indians and the English. And Horn reminds us that the outcome of their protracted conflict was by no means certain.

This book complicates centuries of mainstream historiography and the narrative that the Powhatan people helped early English colonies survive.

An accomplished work of scholarly detection that plays out against the background of the English colonization of Virginia.

... an immersive portrait of Opechancanough (c. 1547–1646).