Chief Logan - Hardcover

Franklin B. Sawvel; Brantz Mayer & Ron Wenning.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1889037427 ISBN 13: 9781889037424

Publisher: Wennawoods Publishing, 2006

Synopsis

Chief Logan was the son of a great Iroquoian chief, Jefferson would call him the greatest orator of the 18th century. And yet this once great, kind and gentle friend of whites and spiritual leader of his people would see his life spiral downward; committing him to wander his remaining years on the frontier a tortured and broken man. But I choose to think of Logan in better times. As a youth, Logan certainly enjoyed the view of our beautiful Buffalo Valley of Pennsylvania as much as I do. And if I had lived here 250 years ago, Logan would have been my neighbor. You see, Logan grew up at Shikellamy s Town along the West Branch of the Susquehanna about 4 miles from where I now sit writing his story. He certainly walked our fields, hunted our woods, and delighted in our sunsets. Surely he loved our little valley. This much we have in common. Yet his world fame would come in his later years. I think a great deal about the man who would become Chief of the Mingoes. And if you, like me, wondered how did he live, what did he do, and where did he go, we have a lot in common. Tracking his many years in PA until his death in the Ohio Country and trying to answer those questions, started my life-long love affair with Logan. But of course we know this famous 18th century Indian better as Chief Logan and this anthology will help you to better understand this complicated man. Our first choice, Logan the Mingo by Franklin B. Sawvel, explains Logan s life in an easy and understanding way. Our second selection published in 1851 by Brantz Mayer, endeavors to explain the Cresap/Greathouse controversy and how Logan came to lay the blame for his families murders at the hands of Michael Cresap when in fact the Greathouse gang was responsible. This tragic turn of events of led to Logan s Lament, the most famous words ever spoken by an American Indian. The final part of Chief Logan is the 1997 article written for the Lycoming County Historical Society Chief Logan: Friend, Foe or Fiction and uncovers who the real Chief Logan really was. Logan s last years would be filled with melancholy and sadness and he would be destined to wander the Ohio Frontier a broken and dejected man. His life had come full circle. From his days as a child roaming the Buffalo Valley on the Susquehanna s West Branch, Logan was reduced at the end to begging for whiskey among the officers at Ft Detroit, somehow comforting his tormented soul in death. Now over two centuries later, we repeated his story. It is a simply story destined to be committed to the fates of the common man. Who is there to mourn for Logan? I do! CHIEF LOGAN: An Anthology is 3 Books in 1. It includes Logan the Mingo by Franklin B. Sawvel; Tah-Gah-Jute; or Logan and Captain Michael Cresap by Brantz Mayer; and Chief Logan: Friend, Foe or Fiction by Ron Wenning.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wennawoods Publishing
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1889037427
• ISBN 13: 9781889037424
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 224