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The frontiersmen were a remarkable variety of men. They were often tough and illiterate, sometimes brutal and vicious, often seeking an escape in the wilderness of mid-America from offences committed back east. In the beautiful but dangerous country that would one day come to be known as Western world Virginia, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, more often than not they left their bones to bleach beside forest pathways or on the lenders of the Ohio River, victims of Indians who claimed the vast virgin place and strove to turn back the growing tide of whites. These frontiersmen are the content of Allan W. Eckert's dramatic history. Against the backdrop of such titles as George Rogers Clark, Daniel Boone, Arthur St. Clair, Anthony Wayne, Simon Girty, and William Henry Harrison, Eckert has re-created the life span of one of America's most remarkable heroes, Simon Kenton. Kenton's role in beginning the Northwest Territory to settlement more than rivaled that of his friend Daniel Boone. By his 18th birthday, Kenton possessed already earned frontier renown as woodsman, fighter, and scout. His incredible physical strength and endurance, his great dignity and innate kindness made him the perfect prototype of the frontier hero. Yet there is another storyline to The Frontiersmen. It really is equally the storyplot of one of history's biggest market leaders, whose misfortune was to be created to a doomed cause and a dying competition. Tecumseh, the great Shawnee chief, welded mutually by the pure drive of his intellect and charisma an unbelievable Indian confederacy that arrived desperately near breaking the thrust of the white man's westward enlargement. Like Kenton, Tecumseh was the paragon of his people's virtues, and the storyplot of his life, in Eckert's hands, uncovers most profoundly the grandeur and the tragedy of the North american Indian.
