The Frontiersmen
by Allan W. Eckert
Historical Background
Simon Kenton and Other Frontiersmen
- The Official Simon Kenton Home Page, from FrontierFolk.org, includes a biography and lots of links.
- Historic Washington in Mason County, Kentucky holds a Simon Kenton Festival each September in honor of its founder.
- The Simon Kenton Trail is a multi-use trail through some of Kenton’s haunts in present-day Urbana and Champaign County, Ohio. Urbana is also the site of Simon Kenton’s grave.
- Covington’s Riverside Park, in the Kentucky county named for Kenton, has a statue of Simon Kenton. (The three counties of Northern Kentucky were all named for prominent pioneer-era men: Daniel Boone; Simon Kenton; and early settler, land speculator, and politician John Campbell.)
- Biography of George Rogers Clark from the Indiana Historical Bureau
- Locust Grove, the historic Clark family home in Louisville
- Biography of Daniel Boone from the Harrodsburg Historical Society (published on American West)
- Biographies from Ohio History Central: Simon Girty, Arthur St. Clair, and Anthony Wayne
Tecumseh and the Native Perspective
- Biography of Tecumseh from Ohio History Central
- The long-running outdoor drama Tecumseh!, written by Allan Eckert, is performed each summer in Chillicothe, Ohio (the white Chillicothe, that is)
- Shawnee tribal history by Lee Sultzman
- The Shawnee Wegiwa from a personal Shawnee home page
- Biography of Chief Logan from Ohio History Central
- Chief Logan’s Lament, in which the former peacemaker mourned his family, massacred by a party led by Jacob Greathouse, and explained why he had taken up the tomahawk, is listed among the Top 100 American Speeches at the Online Speech Bank. See pages 102-104 of The Frontiersmen for contemporary reaction to Logan’s remarks.
- Blue Jacket Historical Critique—a series of articles compiled by descendant G. Carlyle Hinshaw outlining recent historical research indicating that Shawnee chief Blue Jacket and white captive Marmaduke Van Swearingen were not really the same man
General References
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