One of the premier chroniclers of our nation's turbulent frontier history; Allan W. Ecker now presents another spellbinding chapter in the conquest of the American wilderness. Here is the powerful; compellingly human story of the white man's struggle to claim the rich land of the Northern Mississippi--ancestral home of the Fox and Sac tribes--from the legendary war chief Black Hawk. Having killed his first enemy at sixteen. This proud; brooding warrior extends a hand in friendship to the Spanish and the British; but harbors a lifelong hatred for the Americans; who once burned his home village. Now charged by the president himself; the ambitious governor of Illinois Territory leads a brave and illustrious group of settlers and soldiers to wrest the beautiful land from a nation of destiny and a noble chieftain fated to be betrayed by his own kind.
#26476 in Books 2017-09-22Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 11.40 x .75 x 8.50l; .0 #File Name: 1910809012384 pages
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