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Price: $7.99
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Sale: $4.44
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Manufacturer: Domain
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
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Author: Allan W. Eckert
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Publisher: Domain
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Dewey Decimal Number: 977.00497302
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Publication Date: 1993-02-01
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Reading Level: 1088
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Description: A biography of the Shawnee leader describes his vision to unite North American tribes into one powerful Indian nation capable of forcing back the encroaching white settlers and his attempts to do so. Reprint. NYT. K.
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Price: $30.00
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Sale: $18.50
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Manufacturer: Jesse Stuart Foundation
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Allan W. Eckert
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Publisher: Jesse Stuart Foundation
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Dewey Decimal Number: 977.01092
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Publication Date: 2001-03-01
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Reading Level: 626
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Description: The frontiersmen were a remarkable breed of men. They were often rough and illiterate, sometimes brutal and vicious, often seeking an escape in the wilderness of mid-America from crimes committed back east. In the beautiful but deadly country which would one day come to be known as West Virginia, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, more often than not they left their bones to bleach beside forest paths or on the banks of the Ohio River, victims of Indians who claimed the vast virgin territory and strove to turn back the growing tide of whites. These frontiersmen are the subjects of Allan Eckert's dramatic history. Against the background of such names as George Rogers Clark, Daniel Boone, Arthur St. Clair, Anthony Wayne, Simon Girty and William Henry Harrison, Eckert has recreated the life of one of America's most outstanding heroes, Simon Kenton. Kenton's role in opening the Northwest Territory to settlement more than rivaled that of his friend Daniel Boone. By his eighteenth birthday, Kenton had already won frontier renown as woodsman, fighter and scout. His incredible physical strength and endurance, his great dignity and innate kindness made him the ideal prototype of the frontier hero. Yet there is another story to The Frontiersmen. It is equally the story of one of history's greatest leaders, whose misfortune was to be born to a doomed cause and a dying race. Tecumseh, the brilliant Shawnee chief, welded together by the sheer force of his intellect and charisma an incredible Indian confederacy that came desperately close to breaking the thrust of the white man's westward expansion. Like Kenton, Tecumseh was the paragon of his people's virtues, and the story of his life, in Allan Eckert's hands, reveals most profoundly the grandeur and the tragedy of the American Indian. No less importantly, The Frontiersmen is the story of wilderness America itself, its penetration and settlement, and it is Eckert's particular grace to be able to evoke life and meaning from the raw facts of this story. In The Frontiersmen not only do we care about our long-forgotten fathers, we live again with them. Researched for seven years, The Frontiersmen is the first in Mr. Eckert's "The Winning of America" series.
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Price: $20.00
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Sale: $8.50
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Manufacturer: Holt Paperbacks
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: John Sugden
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Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
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Dewey Decimal Number: 977.0049730092
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Publication Date: 1999-04-15
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Reading Level: 448
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Description: Of Indian chief Tecumseh, U.S. president William Henry Harrison said, "If it were not for the vicinity of the United States, he would, perhaps, be the founder of an empire that would rival in glory that of Mexico or Peru." As it was, however, he was born just more than a decade shy of the discovery of the New World, and came of age in an era of violence and cultural decay in which Indian tribes across the continent expended all their energy to repulse the Europeans who were commandeering their land. By the end of the century, Tecumseh, a member of the Shawnee tribe, was an accomplished warrior; after losing his father and two older brothers to battle, he assumed the role of war chief. There seemed to be only two courses of action that might preserve his tribe: assimilation or war. After watching other tribes fail in their bids to mimic European society, the charismatic Tecumseh, aided by his brother (known as "the Prophet"), attempted a short-lived but inspired strategy of organizing a pan-Indian alliance to put down the European encroachers. It was while fighting alongside the British in the War of 1812 that Tecumseh was killed. His body was never found. Richard Johnson, the man who claimed to have taken the great chief down, went on to become Martin Van Buren's vice president. With Tecumseh, biographer John Sugden expands the scope of his earlier book Tecumseh's Last Stand, which focused exclusively on the chief's final, fatal battle. In both books Sugden displays intimate knowledge of his subject; Tecumseh, however, takes a much more in-depth look at this complex man, his life, and the times that shaped him, and thus should appeal to American-history buffs as well as anyone interested in a carefully crafted biography of a fascinating character.
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Price: $20.67
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Sale: $11.90
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Manufacturer: Longman
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: David Edmunds
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Publisher: Longman
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Edition: 2
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Dewey Decimal Number: 974.004973170092
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Publication Date: 2006-07-21
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Reading Level: 208
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Description: In this biography, David Edmunds examines the life of legendary Shawnee leader Tecumesh and his pivotal role in defending the Native American way of life. Since his death as an avowed warrior at the Battle of the Thames in 1813, the details of Tecumseh’s life have passed into the realm of legend, myth and drama. In this new edition, David Edmunds considers the man who acted as a diplomat – a charismatic strategist who attempted to smooth cultural divisions between tribes and collectively oppose the seizure of their land. The titles in the Library of American Biography Series make ideal supplements for American History Survey courses or other courses in American history where figures in history are explored. Paperback, brief, and inexpensive, each interpretive biography in this series focuses on a figure whose actions and ideas significantly influenced the course of American history and national life. In addition, each biography relates the life of its subject to the broader themes and developments of the times.
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Price: $18.95
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Sale: $13.30
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Manufacturer: University of Nebraska Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: R. David Edmunds
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Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 970.00497
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Publication Date: 1985-03-01
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Reading Level: 272
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Description: In the early 1800s, when control of the Old Northwest had not yet been assured to the United States, the Shawnee leaders Tecumseh and his brother Tenskwatawa, the Shawnee Prophet, led an intertribal movement culminating at the Battle of Tippecanoe and the Battle of the Thames. Historians have portrayed Tecumseh, the war leader, as the key figure in forging the intertribal confederacy. In this full-length biography of Tenskwatawa, R. David Edmunds shows that, to the contrary, the Shawnee Prophet initiated and for much of the period dominated the movement, providing a set of religious beliefs and ceremonies that revived the tribes' fading power and cohesion.
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Price: $42.95
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Sale: $29.01
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Manufacturer: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: John M. Oskison
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Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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Dewey Decimal Number: 920
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Publication Date: 2008-06-13
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Reading Level: 260
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Price: $14.49
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Sale: $8.92
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Manufacturer: AuthorHouse
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Mike Tower
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Publisher: AuthorHouse
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Dewey Decimal Number: 920
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Publication Date: 2007-10-07
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Reading Level: 248
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Description: The mélange of works dealing with personalities emerging from the Lincoln County, New Mexico War have treated Fred Waite shabbily. Although many writers have termed him the best friend of Billy the Kid, he has never been properly researched. From the earliest work Waite has been portrayed as a minor character drifting into Lincoln just in time to get hired into a shooting war, and who then faded into obscurity. The truth, as presented in this book, is far different for Waite was a wealthy adventurer drawn into the conflict by circumstance rather than a rogue hireling. It's even probable he was an investor in John Tunstall's grand design for dominating Southeast New Mexico. Moreover, after this adventure he did not pale into the background. Rather, Fred Waite, the outlaw, while battling Federal attempts to dismantle his people's government, brightened into the dynamic and respected statesman F. Tecumseh Waite. It's a remarkable story, one you owe to yourself to read.
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $17.34
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Manufacturer: Wiley
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Stanley P. Hirshson
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Publisher: Wiley
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Dewey Decimal Number: 355
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Publication Date: 1998-08-24
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Reading Level: 475
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Description: William T. Sherman was Ulysses S. Grant's staunchest ally in the Union Army; in 1862 he even dissuaded his friend from resigning. This opinionated work on the leader of the merciless March to the Sea takes issue with many previous biographies. According to Stanley Hirshon, Sherman was not a racist (at least, not by 19th-century standards), not a philanderer (though he liked to flirt), and not a bad general (though he lost a lot of battles). The author makes a persuasive case for these contentions in his strongly argued text.
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $9.35
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Manufacturer: University of Oklahoma Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: John Sugden
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Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.52
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Publication Date: 1990-01
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Reading Level: 298
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Price: $22.50
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Sale: $11.15
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Manufacturer: The University of North Carolina Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Gordon M. Sayre
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Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 810.9352997
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Publication Date: 2005-10-24
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Reading Level: 368
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Description: The leaders of anticolonial wars of resistance--Metacom, Pontiac, Tecumseh, and Cuauhtemoc--spread fear across the frontiers of North America. Yet once defeated, these men became iconic martyrs for postcolonial national identity in Canada, the United States, and Mexico. By the early 1800s a craze arose for Indian tragedy on the U.S. stage, such as John Augustus Stone's Metamora, and for Indian biographies as national historiography, such as the writings of Benjamin Drake, Francis Parkman, and William Apess. With chapters on seven major resistance struggles, including the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 and the Natchez Massacre of 1729, The Indian Chief as Tragic Hero offers an analysis of not only the tragedies and epics written about these leaders, but also their own speeches and strategies, as recorded in archival sources and narratives by adversaries including Hern¡n Cort©s, Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz, Joseph Doddridge, Robert Rogers, and William Henry Harrison. Sayre concludes that these tragedies and epics about Native resistance laid the foundation for revolutionary culture and historiography in the three modern nations of North America, and that, at odds with the trope of the complaisant "vanishing Indian," these leaders presented colonizers with a cathartic reproof of past injustices.
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