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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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Tecumseh became a leader not only of the Shawnees, but he put together a confederation of Native Americans from many tribes who were preparing to fight the whites in 1811. However, Tecumseh's brother and the Shawnees back home in Indiana attacked William Henry Harrison and his men in 1811 and were defeated by Harrison at the Battle of Tippecanoe before Tecumseh and his confederation could get back.
Simon Kenton was captured by the Shawnees and some of the Shawnees wanted to execute Kenton, but Tecumseh would not let them do this. Years later during the War of 1812 Kenton was serving as a scout at the Battle of Ontario on October 5, 1813. Tecumseh, having a premonition that he would be killed in this battle did not dress up as the chief he was but he dressed as an ordinary warrior. After the battle Simon Kenton recognized Tecumseh who was laying dead on the field of battle. Kenton did not let the other white men know it was Tecumseh, in this way sparing Tecumseh of being scalped. In this way Kenton paid back to Tecumseh the favor of saving Kenton's life years earler.