Allan W. Eckert Bücher

Ben, der Junge, der so gut die Tiere imitieren kann, lebt wochenlang mit einem Dachs zusammen.

A biography of the famous Shawnee describes Tecumseh's plan to amalgamate all North American tribes into one people, his role as statesman and military strategist, and his death in the Battle of Thames.

Driven from their homeland, the Indians fought bitterly to keep a final stronghold east of the Mississippi. Savage cunning, strength, skill, and knowledge of the wilderness were their weapons, and the Indians used them mercilessly. But they couldn't foresee the white men who would come later, men who loved the land as much as they did, who wanted it for their own. Men who learned the Indian tricks and matched brutality for brutality.

"Die Ansiedler oder die Quellen des Susquehanna spielt zum Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts an der Westgrenze des Staates New York. Natty Bumppo, besser bekannt als Lederstrumpf, mittlerweile nicht mehr ganz jung und ein Großgrundbesitzer und Richter Marmaduke Temple sind die Hauptfiguren. Schon damals ein aktuelles Sujet: Beide treten gegen die Ausbeutung der Natur durch den Menschen ein." Redaktion Gröls-Verlag (Edition Werke der Weltliteratur)

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 America's most outstanding heroes, Simon Kenton. Kenton's 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. The Frontiersmen is equally the story of one of history's 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 and incredible Indian confederacy that thrust of the white man's westward expansion. Like Kenton, Tecumseh was the paragon of his people's virtues.