Red Tears

Prudence Mims flourished as the youngest daughter of a prominent planter in the frontier wilderness of the Tensaw Delta in present-day Alabama. Her father, Samuel Mims, came to the Mississippi Territory as an Indian Trader during the American Revolution acquiring a land grant from the governor of Spanish West Florida. For years the Mims family lived in peace in the ancestral home of Creek Indians. However, everything changed when the United States exerted their territorial claims to the southern region of the American frontier. In time, they would become collateral damage in a game of cat and mouse between the fledgling U.S. Government and the fierce Red Stick Faction of the Creek Indians. Based on family lore, this is the untold story Prudence's harrowing escape when these worlds collided on August 30, 1813, resulting in the worst massacre by Woodland Indians in American history - forever changing the framework of a continent.