Long Knife
by James Alexander Thom
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A legend. A warrior. A hero. A classic American epic. Two centuries ago, with the support of the young Revolutionary government, George Rogers Clark led a small but fierce army west from Virginia to conquer all the territory between the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. He battled the British, forged friendships with French and Spanish settlers, and made treaties with many Indian tribes who revered the lanky, red-haired white man and called him Long Knife. He fell in love with the woman of his show more dreams, the beautiful Spanish maiden Teresa de Leyba. And George Rogers Clark was, in the end, bitterly betrayed by the same government he had so nobly served. Rich in the heroic characters, meticulously researched detail, and grand scale that have become James Alexander Thom's trademarks, Long Knife, his first historical epic, is simply unforgettable. show lessTags
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Pretty good historical novel about George Rogers Clark and the American Revolution in the west. I read this on a whim back in high school, after finding it in a drugstore on a road trip, and absolutely loved it.
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- Canonical title
- Long Knife
- Original title
- Long Knife
- Original publication date
- 1979
- People/Characters
- George Rogers Clark; Teresa de Leyba
- Epigraph
- Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
~ F Scott Fitzgerald - First words
- The old general felt it coming at sunset on that fine cool evening, while he sat on the porch of his log house on the bluff overlooking the Ohio: a greater melancholy than any he had faced in the thirty years of his decline.
- Quotations
- Show me a hero, and I will write you a tragedy - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)It was time for me to fold up my imagination and go home.
- Disambiguation notice
- This is not the same Clark as in "Lewis and Clark". William Clark, of the famed 'Lewis and Clark Expedition', was the youngest brother of the subject of this novel, George Rogers Clark.
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