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Twilight of Empire (Winning of America, Bk 6)
Twilight of Empire - Winning of America, Bk 6 Author:Allan W. Eckert One of the premier chroniclers of our nation's turbulent frontier history, Allan W. Eckert now presents another spellbinding chapter in the conquest of the American wilderness. — Here is the powerful, compellingly human story of the white man's struggle to claim the rich land of the Northern Mississippi- -- ancestral home of t... more »he Fox and Sac tribes -- -from the legendary war chief Black Hawk. Having killed his first enemy at sixteen. This proud, brooding warrior extends a hand in friendship to the Spanish and the British, but harbors a lifelong hatred for the Americans, who once burned his home village. Now charged by the president himself, the ambitious governor of Illinois Territory leads a brave and illustrious group of settlers and soldiers to wrest the beautiful land from a nation of destiny and a noble chieftain fated to be betrayed by his own kind.« less