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by Allan Eckert. 653 pages, 6" x 9" Softbound. For 200 years, the Iroquois League dominated a major section of North America. This is the gripping narrative of the struggle between Englandand France to gain support of the League in a war where the final prize was the Indian’s land. A perceptive, penetrating novel based on the French and Indian War.

by Allan Eckert. 496 pages, 6" x 9" Hardbound. This fourth volume of Eckert's acclaimed series, picks up where his Wilderness Empire leaves off. Beginning in 1763, and ending in 1780, this volume deals with the destruction of the Iroquois League. Based on an abundance of primary sources: original letters, diaries, military records and much more. The Wilderness War gives a factual account, sustained with the suspense and pace of first rate fiction, of the last years of the Iroquois Empire and the first years of the American nation.

by Allan Eckert. 496 pages, 6" x 9" Softbound. This fourth volume of Eckert's acclaimed series, picks up where his Wilderness Empire leaves off. Beginning in 1763, and ending in 1780, this volume deals with the destruction of the Iroquois League. Based on an abundance of primary sources: original letters, diaries, military records and much more. The Wilderness War gives a factual account, sustained with the suspense and pace of first rate fiction, of the last years of the Iroquois Empire and the first years of the American nation.

by Allan Eckert. 718 pages, 6" x 9" Hardbound. After the English victory in the French & Indian War, they started to occupy the lands they won only to meet the resistance of the Indians who saw English as a threat to their lands. This is the story of the Ottawa uprising  under Chief Pontiac. Combining the accuracy of a chronicle and the spellbinding pace of a story well told, Eckert again evokes the high drama of the conquest of the Northwest.

by Allan Eckert. 718 pages, 6" x 9" Softbound. After the English victory in the French & Indian War, they started to occupy the lands they won only to meet the resistance of the Indians who saw English as a threat to their lands. This is the story of the Ottawa uprising  under Chief Pontiac. Combining the accuracy of a chronicle and the spellbinding pace of a story well told, Eckert again evokes the high drama of the conquest of the Northwest.

by Allan Eckert. 626 pages, Hardbound. The story of Simon Kenton and his role in opening up the Northwest Territory. The story of the Shawnee Chief Tecumseh and the Indian Confederacy that nearly broke the thrust of white expansion. In total, the story of wilderness America, its penetration and settlement.

by Allan Eckert. Softbound. The story of Simon Kenton and his role in opening up the Northwest Territory. The story of the Shawnee Chief Tecumseh and the Indian Confederacy that nearly broke the thrust of white expansion. In total, the story of wilderness America, its penetration and settlement.

by Allan Eckert. Softbound, 688 pages, 6" x 9". This volume traces the settling of the Illinois region from 1763 to 1816 and focuses on the "gateway" -- the Chicago Portage, a vital link between the East and the untapped riches of the West. This rich and readable story centers around Tecumseh, the Shawnee war chief and John Kinzie, successful American trader. Extensively researched, historically accurate, and containing voluminous footnotes. Eckert's books provide hours of pleasant reading and a detailed history lesson all in one.

by Allan Eckert. Hardbound, 592 pages, 6" x 9". Picking up in time roughly where he left off in Gateway to Empire, the author immerses the reader in the history of the Northwest Territories and the Louisiana Purchase during the first half of the nineteenth century as he relates the dramatic events prestaging and composing the Black Hawk War of 1832. The tale of America's westward expansion and the trickery, warfare, purchase, theft, and treaty through which it was achieved.

by Allan Eckert. Softbound, 592 pages, 6" x 9". Picking up in time roughly where he left off in Gateway to Empire, the author immerses the reader in the history of the Northwest Territories and the Louisiana Purchase during the first half of the nineteenth century as he relates the dramatic events prestaging and composing the Black Hawk War of 1832. The tale of America's westward expansion and the trickery, warfare, purchase, theft, and treaty through which it was achieved.

by Allan Eckert.  832 pages, 6" x 9". From 1755 on, the Ohio River would lead a few intrepid explorers into a land of vast abundance. But it was already the home of the most defiant and skilled warriors of all woodland tribes - the Shawnees. Though treaties were signed and boundaries drawn, the stream of settlers continued and the Indians vowed to defend their land. Thus, the Ohio acquired a new name . . . that dark and bloody river . . . a masterwork of narrative history by an award winning novelist and historian.

by Allan Eckert.  177 pages, 4" x 7". In 1771, a white boy was captured by Shawnee Indians in an area that was to become West Virginia. The boy lived to become the war chief known as Blue Jacket. The author has expanded on the known facts to produce a veryreadable, historically accurate novel.

by Allan Eckert. 862 pages, 6-1/2" x 9-1/2.  A fiery orator, a brilliant diplomat, a revolutionary thinker, a political and military genius, the man named Tecumseh became alegend among Native Americans and whites. In this epic work, utilizing more than 850 sources, Eckert weaves a compelling true tale of a man of war and a searcher after peace during the birth and expansion of our nation.

by Walter Edmonds. Softbound, 214 pages. Originally published in 1947 by the author of Drums Along the Mohawk, this is an exciting story about the Indian captivity of pioneer women on the warring frontier in Revolutionary New York. Edmonds’ novels have been notable for combining good entertainment with historical exactness.

by Raymond W. Thorp and Robert Bunker. Softbound, 190 pages, 5-1/2" x 8-1/2". The story of John “Liver Eatin" Johnson and his vengeance against the entire Crow Nation.

by Vardis Fisher. Softbound, 351 pages, 4" x 7". The book that was the inspiration for the movie "Jeremiah Johnson", the classic struggle of a mountainman to avenge the death of his wife and child. An impressive piece of historical fiction that captures the essence of the mountainman's experience without sentimentalization. The author's knowledge of pioneer history, the majesty of nature, the beauty of the self-sufficient life and the eloquence of solitude gives his book a satisfying authenticity.

by Terry C. Johnston. Softbound, 571 pages, 4" x 7". A magnificent historical novel, the story of Josiah Paddock, Easterner turned mountainman, and his harsh struggle for survival against wild animals, fierce Indians and an unrelenting environment. An authentic mountainman novel thick with Northwest wilderness period detail (1820-1840), larded with frontier sentiment and enhanced by fine views of “some of the best lookin’ country the Lord put down”!

by Terry C. Johnston. Softbound, 455 pages, 4" x 7". equel to Carry the Wind, this is the second volume of Johnston’s award winning saga of mountainmen Josiah Paddock and Titus Bass; who here meetnew loves and challenges in the western wilderness of the 1830’s. A powerful drama filled with fascinating scenes of tribal Indian life depicted with passion and detail,  all leading to a terrifying climax at the 1833 Green River Rendezvous.

by Terry C. Johnston. Softbound, 432 pages, 4" x 7". The final volume in the trilogy begun with Carry the Wind and Borderlords. During the winter at Taos, Scratch and Josiah are suddenly drawn by startling news back to St. Louis through a fierce winter  storm to meet old enemies.

by Terry C. Johnston. Softbound, 624 pages, 4" x 7". The world of an early 19th century Kentucky farm proves to be too small a place for a boy with a vision as grand as that of Titus “Scratch” Bass. His wanderlust takes him to the Ohio River and into thefierce business world of old St. Louis, where he meets a veteran trapper, just returned from upper Missouri. Filled with the trapper’s captivating stories, he plans to set out the following spring to experience the wilderness lore firsthand. A trip to a fabled land frontiersmen call “the buffalo palace”.