The Shawnees and the War for America

Okay, okay. Most of you could care less about this, but I've always been fascinated with the Shawnees and easily irritated when they don't get their due in museum or history treatments of native American history. Mr Calloway does a great job of putting them into their proper historical context as th......more

We really need more of such books: competent, thorough, readable distillations of the latest scholarship, able historical overviews. I read this as a memory-jogger, and while I encountered nothing new, I was most pleased by how much information was presented, well told and well organized. This provi......more

Calloway's writing style is highly readable and it is refreshing to look at Manifest Destiny from the viewpoint of the Shawnee. Calloway doesn't white wash either side in the conflict over the Old Northwest. The more I read of this period, the more I begin to see the Shawnee and the other tribes not......more

This covers mainly the eighteenth and early nineteenth century. While it may not be a deep look into the times, it does provide the reader with a glimpse as to what life was like and short biographies of the leaders. There is a good bibliography at the end if you wish to dive deeper. I am fascinated......more