Introduction : the southeastern frontier complex -- Builders and borrowers : South Carolina's early frontier expansion -- Contested empires : the southeastern theaters of Queen Anne's War -- Beneath the buffer zone : strains on South Carolina's Indian alliance network -- Conspiracy theories : inter-Indian alliances and the outbreak of the Yamasee War -- "The generall calamity" : wartime adjustments of the South Carolinians -- Distances bridged and widened : wartime adjustments of the southeastern Indians -- Inchoate resistance : Indians and Imperialists in the Creek-Cherokee War -- Designs on a debatable land : the watershed of South Carolinian expansion -- Conclusion : the significance of the Yamasee War.