Twilight of Empire: A Narrative - Hardcover

Eckert, Allan W.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0316208868 ISBN 13: 9780316208864

Publisher: Little Brown & Co, 1988

Synopsis

Focuses on the whole settlement of, and removal of native peoples from, the Northwest and Louisiana Purchase frontiers during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries

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From the Publisher:

One of the premier chroniclers of our nation's turbulent frontier history, Allan W. Ecker now presents another spellbinding chapter in the conquest of the American wilderness. Here is the powerful, compellingly human story of the white man's struggle to claim the rich land of the Northern Mississippi--ancestral home of the Fox and Sac tribes--from the legendary war chief Black Hawk. Having killed his first enemy at sixteen. This proud, brooding warrior extends a hand in friendship to the Spanish and the British, but harbors a lifelong hatred for the Americans, who once burned his home village. Now charged by the president himself, the ambitious governor of Illinois Territory leads a brave and illustrious group of settlers and soldiers to wrest the beautiful land from a nation of destiny and a noble chieftain fated to be betrayed by his own kind.

"Reading Eckert is like listening to a master storyteller: he presents his material in vivid detail, using the novelist's technique to enhance dramatic events."--Publishers Weekly

From the Back Cover:

"Reading Eckert is like listening to a master storyteller: he presents his material in vivid detail, using the novelist's technique to enhance dramatic events."--Publishers Weekly

About this edition

• Publisher: Little Brown & Co
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0316208868
• ISBN 13: 9780316208864
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 587