A SORROW IN OUR HEART

The Life of Tecumseh

1992

First American Edition

By: Allan W. Eckert

Konecky & Konecky [New York]

8vo (862 pages, maps, diagrams, amplification notes, list of principal sources, bibliography, index.)

Hardcover (with Dust Jacket) [Black cloth]

Item Number: 6937

$125.00

Description

An exhaustive biography of the Shawnee leader Tecumseh drawing on many previously unexamined sources. Tecumseh was an orator, warrior and diplomat who was respected by white settler’s as well as his own people and led the Shawnee to win the greatest victory over an American force in Indian history. A fine copy in very good, slightly soiled dust jacket, gilt lettering bright, contents clean.