In the year 1771, a white boy was captured by Shawnee Indians in what is now part of West Virginia, but was then the edge of our American frontier. He was not killed. Instead he was adopted into the tribe and given the name Blue Jacket, from the blue shirt he had been wearing at the time of his capture. This boy later so excelled as a fighter and leader of men that he was made war chief of the Shawnee Nation. And the name Blue Jacket became famous throughout the Northwest Territory.

Allan W. Eckert, author of The Frontiersmen, has taken all of the known facts of Blue Jacket's life and has woven them into a narrative with a very different perspective on the settling of America. Blue Jacket was an Indian in every way save that of birth. He was dedicated to preventing the efforts of the white man to take Indian land and life. The reader fights by Blue Jacket's side in the wilderness that was Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia, as this story of the dangerous frontier life unfolds.

From the dust jacket