John Sugden. Blue Jacket: Warrior of the Shawnees. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000. Pp. 362. Illustrations. Index. Maps. Cloth, $29.95.
In John Sugden's fine biography of Blue Jacket, we see that in his time (1743-1808) there was no one on the Ohio frontier more important than this Shawnee warrior. Blue Jacket was born and came of age during the Anglo-French struggle for the North American interior and gained renown during the Twenty Years War (1774-1794) for the Ohio ...