A Sorrow in Our Heart
- 862 stránek
- 31 hodin čtení
A biography of the Shawnee chief describes his plan to amalgamate all North American tribes into one people, hsi role as a military strategist, and his death in battle
Allan W. Eckert Knihy
30. leden 1931 – 7. červenec 2011
Allan W. Eckert byl americký historik, historický romanopisec a přírodovědec. Jeho díla se hluboce zabývají americkou historií a přírodním světem, často se soustředí na ztracené druhy a hraniční příběhy. Eckertův jedinečný styl proplétá dokumentární přesnost s působivým vyprávěním, což čtenářům přináší živý obraz minulosti. Byl oceněn jako oblíbený ohijský spisovatel všech dob, což podtrhuje jeho trvalý vliv na literaturu a historické vyprávění.
The Frontiersmen
- 751 stránek
- 27 hodin čtení
Driven from their homeland, the Indians fought bitterly to keep a final stronghold east of the Mississippi. Savage cunning, strength, skill, and knowledge of the wilderness were their weapons, and the Indians used them mercilessly. But they couldn't foresee the white men who would come later, men who loved the land as much as they did, who wanted it for their own. Men who learned the Indian tricks and matched brutality for brutality.
Incident at Hawk's Hill
- 224 stránek
- 8 hodin čtení
A shy, lonely six-year-old wanders into the Canadian prairie and spends a summer under the protection of a badger
Čtvrtý svazek dobrodružství lovce Nattyho Bumppa a jeho indiánského přítele Čingačgúka navazuje na romány Lovec jelenů, Poslední Mohykán a Stopař. Oba hrdinové jsou už staří, svět kolem nich se změnil z divočiny v civilizovaný kraj, Čingačgúk zemře a Natty odchází dožít do krajů civilizací ještě tolik nedotčených.
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. The Frontiersmen 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 and incredible Indian confederacy that thrust of the white man's westward expansion. Like Kenton, Tecumseh was the paragon of his people's virtues.