The Shawnee Tomahawk: A True Story of an American Frontier Boy 1784-1797 - Softcover

Williams, Frances Leigh

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1468559206 ISBN 13: 9781468559200

Publisher: AuthorHouse, 2012

Synopsis

Taken from an old record, THE SHAWNEE TOMAHAWK is the almost unbelievable but true story of the Moore family of Abb's Valley, Virginia, in 1784, and of teen-age Jim and his capture by the Shawnees during an Indian raid. For Jim, a Shawnee prisoner, there follows an exhausting march in pain and hunger to the Shawnee villages in Ohio. Upon arrival he is sold as a slave-captive to an old squaw and her husband. He earns respect among the Shawness for his physical skills and courage, but knows that at any time they could turn against him and his life would be endangered. Escape seems impossible, but Jim lives in hope of returning to his family. Eventually the squaw sells Jim to a French - Canadian trader which brings Jim relief from tensions in the Shawnee village. In Canada, Jim overhears a conversation about his sister Mary. He learns that she, too, was captured by the Shawnees and sold to a man in Canada. Thrilled by the new Jim can hardly wait to see her, and he hopes the two of them can perhaps work out a plan to return to Virginia. Excitingly told as a fiction story, THE SHAWNEE TOMAHAWK is dramatic and exceptionally well written.

About this title

About the Author:

Fresh out of college Frances Leigh Williams went to work on a newspaper the Richmond News Leader. She became research assistant to the editor Dr. Douglas Southall Freeman, biographer of Robert E. Lee, George Washington, and author of Lee's Lieutenants. She continued to do free-lance writing for newspapers. One of the many reasons which led Miss Williams to write THE SHAWNEE TOMAHAWK was the encouragement she received from the late novelist Ellen Glasgow. When Miss Williams told her the story of Mary and Jim Moore, Miss Glasgow said, "It is a shame that no one has written this story for the young people of today, Frances, you've got to promise me to do it".

About this edition

• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1468559206
• ISBN 13: 9781468559200
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 140