{"product_id":"the-frontiersmen-a-narrative-9780945084914","title":"The Frontiersmen: A Narrative","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe frontiersmen were a remarkable breed of men. They were often rough and illiterate  sometimes brutal and vicious  often seeking an escape in the wilderness of mid-America from crimes committed back east. In the beautiful but deadly country which would one day come to be known as West Virginia  Kentucky  Michigan  Ohio  Indiana  and Illinois  more often than not they left their bones to bleach beside forest paths or on the banks of the Ohio River  victims of Indians who claimed the vast virgin territory and strove to turn back the growing tide of whites. These frontiersmen are the subjects of Allan Eckerts dramatic history. 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 Americas most outstanding heroes  Simon Kenton. Kentons 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 historys 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 mans westward expansion. Like Kenton  Tecumseh was the paragon of his peoples virtues  and the story of his life  in Allan Eckerts 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 Eckerts 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. Eckerts \"The Winning of America\" series.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45666153463861,"sku":"ByrdShop_0945084919","price":49.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780945084914.jpg?v=1782421003","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-frontiersmen-a-narrative-9780945084914","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}