I will add "Indian Summer, The Siege and Fall Of Fort Loudoun " to this list. This book gives an excellent understanding of the events and politics leading up to the fall of Fort Loudoun in 1760, and the subsequent massacre of the South Carolina Independent Company.
"The scum of every nation gravitates to the frontier." Benjamin Franklin 1750
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote." Benjamin Franklin 1759
The existence of flamethrowers is proof that someone, somewhere, said to himself, "I want to set those people over there on fire, but I don't feel like walking over there to do it."
"Calling an illegal alien an "undocumented immigrant" is like calling a drug dealer an "unlicensed pharmacist."