Little Turtle (Me-she-kin-no-quah): The Great Chief of the Miami Indian Nation Being a Sketch of His Life Together with that of Wm. Wells and Some Noted Descendants

U.S.A.: Alpha Editions, 2019. Reprint . Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Light crease in the rear of the wrapper (only flaw); overall a very crisp and clean used copy! Gray and white wrapper with black lettering. 254 very clean unmarked and uncreased historical and informative pages nicely enhanced by black and white illustrations! "Every great crisis in tribal or national life makes a forceful appeal to the bold and aggressive spirits found in all political bodies and calls forth leaders from among these to meet the new and chaqnging conditions of the hour even at the hazard of life, property and personal comfort. This fact is forcibly illustrated in our own national history by the lives of Washington, Lincoln, Grant and many other heroic characters who established, fostered and conserved our country. We are not surprised, therefore, that the rapid expansion of the New England and Coast Colonies and the encroachment of the white man on the virgin domain of the lower lake region and the Ohio valley in the latter part of the eighteenth century and later called forth three great Indian chieftains in three successive generations, viz: Pontiac, the Ottawa, in 1762; Little Turtle, the Miami, in 1790; and Tecumseh, the Shawnee, in 1811. All these were distinguished characters scarcely excelled for bravery, military genius and statecraft by any other American Indian chiefs from the earliest white settlement to the present time....." ---- from the Foreword.