Lee, however, had a theory about why Pickett had stopped writing. “I do not believe that it was in him,” she said, “to write of the eventual fate of the Creek Nation, of the Cherokees, of the Chickasaws and Choctaws, which was decided well within his own lifetime.” Instead his narrative concluded with the “engagements” between Andrew Jackson’s army and the Creeks, which, Lee said, “began to spell the end, which came, as we all know, in a few furious hours at Horseshoe Bend.” Then Lee said something about the historian that was far more revealing than anyone in the high school auditorium might
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