In life a hero, in death a legend, Tecumseh, chief of the Shawnee, was the last of the great Indian leaders of eastern North America. In Luella Creighton's vivid and passionate story Tecumseh's whole life is given, from his birth into a stone-age culture overshadowed by the young United States, to his death fighting Kentucky's cavalry near a village in southwestern Ontario.

This is the adventure of a noble man trying to rally his divided people against a threat no Indian had successfully resisted before. Tecumseh travelled from Lake Superior to the Gulf of Mexico trying to unite the scattered tribes who knew of each other only by rumor. He spoke magnificently, fought courageously, and planned his battles so well that he frequently conquered forces that outnumbered him. He hated American tactics, but he was not prejudiced: his first proposal of marriage was to a beautiful white settler who loved him. And he banned the ancient Indian practice of torturing prisoners. He was one of the strongest and most intelligent men who have ever lived on this continent, and this story gives the full measure of his greatness.

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