Genius Of the Shawnee

From: The Washington Post | Date: July 12, 1998| Author: Jennifer Veech | Copyright information
TECUMSEHD A Life By John Sugden Henry Holt. 492 pp. $34.95

If anyone can be said to know the great Shawnee chief Tecumseh, leader of the Indian forces in the War of 1812, it is the British scholar John Sugden. In Tecumseh, disentangling his subject from centuries of legend and third-hand accounts, Sugden pieces together a detailed history of this much eulogized warrior and leader.

Still, Tecumseh is an elusive figure even in his own biography because reliable accounts of the Sh...

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