 | The Shawnee Indians by Randolph Noe
Buy new: $85.72 / Used from: $111.55 There was genius in this elaborately annotated work. Cross indexed, massive, invaluable. We miss the man who wrote it.
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 | That Dark and Bloody River: Chronicles of the Ohio River Valley by Allan Eckert
Buy used from: $8.05 His crowning achievement. Enthralling notes. I never agree with everything he says, but gosh what an inspirational wealth of research-as-story Eckert presents.
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| Wilderness Trail (2 Volumes) by Charles Augustus Hanna
Still an amazing source. Hanna understood how history works. The preface is brilliant.
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 | The Hunters of Kentucky: A Narrative History of America's First Far West, 1750-1792 by Ted Franklin Belue
Buy new: $28.17 / Used from: $16.69 After the late Randy Noe, Ted Franklin Belue has been Kentucky's leading published authority on the historical Shawnee. See his other books.
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 | The Tuscarawas Valley in Indian Days 1750-1797: Original Journals and Old Maps
Buy new: $22.00 / Used from: $30.00 A nice anthology of frontier diaries and documents. A treasure.
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| Indian Blood, Vol. 2 by Richard L. Pangburn
Buy used from: $50.00 Many Shawnee genealogies and family histories in Vol I. This one discusses Blue Jacket and presents Robert Van Trees' arguments. Indian Blood III will show why many of Van Trees' claims are bogus.
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| A Sorrow in Our Heart: The Life of Tecumseh by Allan W. Eckert
Buy used from: $7.69 A wow of a book, history and a story with values and humanity. Deserved the Pulitzer Prize.
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| Banks of the Wabash by Robert V. Van Trees
Buy used from: $14.45 Far too obsessive. Was Blue Jacket white? There was more than one Blue Jacket. The only way to get Chief Blue Jacket's DNA is to somehow ascertain where the old chief is buried and dig him up.
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 | The Frontiersmen: A Narrative by Allan W. Eckert
Buy new: $19.80 / Used from: $14.50 A pioneering meld of history, documentation, and lore about Simon Kenton. Researched back in the 1950s; some of Eckert's sources, notably THE JOURNAL OF WILLIAM GRILLS, cannot now be found.
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 | Tecumseh's Last Stand by John Sugden
Buy new: $19.95 / Used from: $5.00 Who killed Tecumseh? The question is worth a book, and Sugden does a great job here. The best on the subject.
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 | Blue Jacket: Warrior of the Shawnees (American Indian Lives) by John Sugden
Buy used from: $3.49 A highly subjective take that diminishes Little Turtle's reputation in order to embellish that of Chief Blue Jacket. Misses the original Blue Jacket's birth by at least a decade, perhaps two.
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| Now and Long Ago by Glenn D. Lough
Buy used from: $251.76 Heck of a great find. Tells many stories derived from arcane records involving frontiersmen and the Ohio Indians.
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| God Gave Us This Country by Bil Gilbert
Buy used from: $1.25 A favorite. A great read. Enthralling.
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| Tecumseh and the Quest for Indian Leadership (Library of American Biography) by R. David Edmunds
Buy used from: $8.31 Prof. Edmunds is always worth reading. Stellar scholarship. See his other works.
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| The Delaware & Shawnee admitted to Cherokee citizenship and the related Wyandotte & Moravian Delaware by Toni Jollay Prevost
Marvelously annotated. Many Shawnee genealogical inferences can be tentatively drawn here, but care must be taken not to assume that people sharing the same last name were always blood related.
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| A Journal of Two Visits Made to Some Nations of Indians on the West Side of the River Ohio, in the Years 1772 and 1773 by David Jones
Buy used from: $89.98 Jones names names and gives some excellent descriptions of the Shawnee. The published versions of this were edited.
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 | The Shawnee Prophet (Bison Book) by R. David Edmunds
Buy new: $16.20 / Used from: $2.52 Another excellent study from Edmunds.
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 | The Shawnee by Jerry E. Clark
Buy used from: $11.58 Good overview of tribal history. The late Randolph Noe talked with the author as Randy was preparing a new Shawnee history, one which will be published posthumously.
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| History of the Shawnee Indians, from the Year 1681 to 1854, Inclusive by H. Harvey
Buy used from: $50.00 Used to be the standard reference, but no more. Limited, but worth a look.
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| Man Of Distinction Among Them: Alexander Mckee And British-indian Affairs Along The Ohio Country by Larry L. Nelson
Buy new: $18.00 / Used from: $13.67 Nicely done. McKee was long associated with the Shawnees.
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| History of the Girtys by Consul Willshire Butterfield
Buy used from: $357.35 Classic history of Simon Girty with notes on many others. Butterfield was a first-rate historian.
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 | A History Of Jonathan Alder (Series on Ohio History and Culture) by Larry Nelson
Buy new: $21.95 / Used from: $10.33 Captured when young and adopted. A common story well told, and more highly credible than Spencer's narrative.
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| INDIAN CAPTIVITY TRUE (The Garland library of narratives of North American Indian captivities) by Washburn
Buy used from: $20.00 Captured when eleven, he didn't sit down to write of it until he was in his fifties and his editor embellished it with details and names in earlier histories and the fictional works of Cooper.
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| Westward into Kentucky: The Narrative of Daniel Trabue by Daniel Trabue
Buy used from: $40.00 A credible account of Stephen and Abram Ruddle who were captured and adopted.
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 | In Search of Morgan's Station and "The Last Indian Raid in Kentucky" by Harry G. Enoch
Buy new: $22.00 / Used from: $21.04 Stellar scholarship.
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