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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. this is a sad, sad, book. The final flare-up of Indian fighting in the "Old Northwest". We even get to see Abraham Lincoln in a early adventure. Black Hawk and his tribe of Fox and Saux indians are hounded to their eventual destruction by the Indian-War Machine. directed from the east, and having no trouble at all with this small people. After this, there's not much left of Eckert's grand narrative, and we can get ready for the Civil war, if we are looking for thrills. It's a book abut a lost cause. The eventual triumph of William Henry Harrison blows no trumpets for me. no reviews | add a review
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One of the premier chroniclers of our nation's turbulent frontier history, Allan W. Ecker now presents another spellbinding chapter in the conquest of the American wilderness. Here is the powerful, compellingly human story of the white man's struggle to claim the rich land of the Northern Mississippi--ancestral home of the Fox and Sac tribes--from the legendary war chief Black Hawk. Having killed his first enemy at sixteen. This proud, brooding warrior extends a hand in friendship to the Spanish and the British, but harbors a lifelong hatred for the Americans, who once burned his home village. Now charged by the president himself, the ambitious governor of Illinois Territory leads a brave and illustrious group of settlers and soldiers to wrest the beautiful land from a nation of destiny and a noble chieftain fated to be betrayed by his own kind. No library descriptions found. |
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This is a book that I needed to read with two bookmarks, one to mark my reading place and another to allow me to follow the author’s amplification notes at the back of the book. Each event and detail has been painstakingly researched. Every character in this sweeping epic is drawn from actual history and their every action actually happened. Twilight of Empire is part of this author’s Winning of America series which I had read all but this book quite a few years ago. I was very happy to have found this book at a second hand store so that I could complete my read of this fascinating series.
Black Hawk was an extraordinary man, he had a life-long hatred for the Americans, who once burned his home village. As settlers and soldiers arrive in this contested land, a savage conflict is ignited. This non-fiction historical read makes for a vivid, exciting and interesting reading experience that is made all the more dramatic by the knowledge that all of this actually happened. ( )