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Simon Eckert ist ein deutscher Schauspieler. Simon Eckert (* Mai in Berlin) ist ein deutscher Schauspieler. Inhaltsverzeichnis. 1 Leben; 2 Filmografie (Auswahl); 3 Theaterrollen; 4 Weblinks. Simon Eckert, Actor: Der Staatsanwalt. Simon Eckert was born on May 14, in Friedrichshain, Berlin, Germany. He is an actor, known for Der Staatsanwalt. Simon Eckert verkörperte neun Jahre lang (seit Folge 7x03) Kriminalhauptkommissar Christian Schubert: "Es war eine tolle Zeit mit vielen. Serien und Filme mit Simon Eckert: Der Staatsanwalt · SOKO Köln · München Mord · SOKO Wismar · Fluch des Falken · Lotta & · Akte Ex · SOKO . Profil von Simon Eckert mit Agentur, Kontakt, Vita, Demoband, Showreel, Fotos auf CASTFORWARD | e-TALENTA, der Online Casting Plattform. Simon Eckert. © Mirjam Knickriem. Film Selection. Der Staatsanwalt. We are Dancers. Auf einmal. Film + TV. Nortuf Hafenkante TV series | Director.
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Wenn man sich nicht entscheiden kann...Preview — The Frontiersmen by Allan W. White man's massacre. Red man's revenge. Driven from their homeland, the Indians fought bitterly to keep a final stronghold east of the Mississippi.
Savage cunning, strength, skill and knowledge of the wilderness were their weapons, and the Indians used them mercilessly.
But they couldn't foresee the white men who would come later, men who loved the land as much as they did White man's massacre. But they couldn't foresee the white men who would come later, men who loved the land as much as they did, who wanted it for their own.
Men who learned the Indian tricks and matched brutality for brutality. Get A Copy. Paperback , pages. Published August 1st by Bantam Books first published June 1st More Details Original Title.
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Start your review of The Frontiersmen. Their bellies had been opened just above the pubic hairs and a loose end of the entrails tied to the sapling.
They had then either been dragged or prodded around so that their intestines had been pulled out of their bodies to wind around the trees as they walked.
Greathouse had apparently died before getting much more than half unwound, but Greathouse himself had stumbled along until not only his intestines but even his stomach had been pulled out and wound into that obscene mass on the tree.
And it is something that must be grappled with, in dealing with a beloved entry into the canon of early American history.
But before we get to what The Frontiersmen is not — to wit: fact — let us begin with what it sets out to be. As the title implies, it is focused on the frontier, and of the Indian Wars that flared and spattered like grease fires at various points in the Northwest Territory.
In attempting to determine why The Frontiersmen is so popular — at least relative to other histories of this era — I decided it has much to do with the choice of Kenton as protagonists.
When first introduced, Kenton is a powerful-but-ungainly youth. However, after a section that can only be described as a training montage, he levels-up in record time.
Soon, Kenton is a crack shot; an expert at shooting and reloading while on the move; an endurance runner who can lope along all day without getting tired; and a master scout, who can track a fart in a hurricane.
Essentially, Kenton is a superhero, whose superpower is killing Indians. This might be a bit disconcerting for modern readers. Yet Eckert neatly avoids this trap by making the Indians, especially the Shawnee leader Tecumseh, into equal players in this drama.
It skews heavily towards Kenton in the first half; then, as Kenton ages out, the storylines shift to Tecumseh. He is genuinely fascinated by their language, customs, and war aims.
The Indians in The Frontiersmen are not hapless victims; they are geopolitical players. Thus, Eckert is able to present an old-fashioned golly-gee-whiz adventure of a white man in the woods, without having to deal with all the baggage that typically encumbers such a premise.
Even if we only accept a percentage of his escapades as true, Kenton lived a remarkable life, filled with bloody battles, close encounters, and thrilling chases.
In my opinion, though, Eckert hides the essential elements in a plodding, often pedantic style. Instead of carefully picking and choosing the important moments to focus on, Eckert prefers to go step by step.
There are whole sections in The Frontiersmen that are devoted to the naming of random counties in Kentucky. Several times I came close to the point of quitting.
Essentially, he took the information he purportedly found in primary sources and used it to create dialogue for his characters, giving a novelistic flair to his scenes.
Along with the dialogue, he adds internal thoughts and mannerisms that could not possibly be known to any but the historian skilled in seances.
If you are a purist, this is an academic crime, pure and simple. In all honesty, it did not bother me too much. A lifetime of studying history and over a decade parsing contradictory police reports as a criminal defense attorney has taught me an important truth about truth: That no two people have ever perceived and remembered an event in the same way.
The shoddy history. He claims to have spent seven years researching the thing; he has citations though they are not pinpointed to claims made in the text ; and he writes with absolute assurance.
At first, this manifested itself in small ways. To take one example — since I just crossed the 1, word mark — there is the issue of Jacob Greathouse.
Moreover, Eckert claims that Jacob was brutally tortured and killed excerpted at the top , while other sources say that the unfortunate Greathouse torture-recipient was another brother, Jonathan.
These are quibbles, of course, but telling. The biggest problem here — calling in to question so much else that Eckert has written — has to do with the Shawnee Chief Blue Jacket.
After further research, it turns out that the name is legit, and that a man bearing the colorful appellation was apparently captured by the Shawnee.
This somehow morphed into the legend that Van Swearingen was Blue Jacket. That legend, however, came into being decades after the events recounted here, from sources virtually no serious historian trusted.
And for good reason. Marmaduke Van Swearingen was not Blue Jacket. Likewise, Blue Jacket was not Van Swearingen.
A mistake, right? Well, yes. And admittedly, Eckert could not have known that DNA testing would eventually sink his battleship. This was first published in Eckert even has his version of Blue Jacket kill his white brother at the Battle of the Wabash!
Where — you must ask — is all this coming from? Science proved this. Thus, either Eckert made it up which is not likely , or else he is extremely gullible in his choice of sources which is probably what happened.
Knowing that huge chunks of The Frontiersmen are simply and utterly wrong is fatal to any acceptance of this volume as serious history.
What then, is The Frontiersmen? I guess I don't know. For me, it did not work as history, or as fiction, or as historical fiction or fictionalized history.
Your mileage, I suppose, will vary according to how much poetic license you can tolerate. My star-rating at that time was twice what it is now.
Upon rereading this, I can only say that I was far less skeptical in my youth. View all 5 comments. Shelves: american-revolution , american-history , kentucky , book-club-picks.
It's told through the eyes of it's two main characters - Simon Kenton who I somehow knew nothing about before this book on the side of the frontiersmen, and Tecumseh on the side of the Native Americans.
Kenton and Tecumseh were the perfect people to tell this story through, as they were around for all of it. The way their lives continually intertwine is cool.
Ultimately what pushed this to 5 stars for me was finally learning about my local history. In one battle alone there are the names of seven men who would go on to have Kentucky counties named after them - names I've heard my whole life but couldn't have told you a thing about them.
I should really have known some of this stuff already! I also somehow grew up never hearing about William Henry Harrison.
There's a lot more interesting about him than his one-month presidency. And Simon Girty! What a great villain. This would make a great movie. A couple of notes: - I mostly read this on Kindle, because there are so many really good footnotes and Kindle makes it easy to flip back and forth between the notes and the text.
On the other hand, the Kindle version has a bunch of errors in it and it doesn't have some of the maps and illustrations that the paperback version has.
Like really really gory. Frontier life was brutal. Some other reviewers have complained that there is too much geography in the book especially in the footnotes , but it was one of my favorite parts!
View 2 comments. Feb 12, L. McCoy rated it really liked it Recommends it for: People interested in history and don't mind a long, extremely violent book.
Shelves: prose , nonfiction , reviewed , action , in-collection , america-fuck-yeah , western. Take that, short attention span! It might have taken over a year but I did it!
This book is a nonfiction story about a Take that, short attention span! This book is a nonfiction story about a man named Simon Kenton and he was well… a frontiersman.
Pros: The story is very interesting, never too slow, I really like that. This book is intense, exciting and has lots of action. This book is very well written.
I like how the beginning of each part not chapter, there are chapters but even they are divided into parts includes the date of the events. I eventually had to get a special magnifying screen made for reading in order to finish this book.
Warning: This book is extremely graphic! Overall: Good book, I definitely recommend it for folks who can handle strong violence in books and are interested in history.
I enjoyed this a lot, found it interesting and learned about things that I think more people should learn about.
Shelves: for-my-boys , favorites. One of the best written historical novels about the settling of the American "West" at the time of the Revolutionary War.
Western Ohio that is. I rated The Frontiersmen a five star because it changed my view of American history. Eckert is a master at transporting the reader back to a historical moment, creating a good story around the facts, and making the reader care.
This book left me in awe of our ancestors' ability to survive. This was a ruthless time and both Whites and Native Americans did One of the best written historical novels about the settling of the American "West" at the time of the Revolutionary War.
This was a ruthless time and both Whites and Native Americans did unthinkable deeds. Heroes in the movies we pay to see today, really did exist.
I read this book right after I read The Founding Brothers. My favorite book. View 1 comment. One of my favorite areas of history is that of the founding of our country, it's earliest roots, it's struggle with British rule, our Revolution, and then the creation of our government and it's struggle to succeed.
During my reading of that history of the nation's early years mention is made of the people in the Western area of the new nation. By Western area what was meant was the land between the Mississippi River the mountains of the East.
From this area problems arose for the leaders of the One of my favorite areas of history is that of the founding of our country, it's earliest roots, it's struggle with British rule, our Revolution, and then the creation of our government and it's struggle to succeed.
From this area problems arose for the leaders of the original 13 Colonies. There was concern that Sectionalism would cause these Western residents to fall into the schemes of European nations or local political intriguers like Aaron Burr or James Wilkinson.
There was even a Whiskey Revolt in Western Pennsylvania that had to be put down by Washington himself. There was also concern that probably masked jealousy on the part of the Original Colonies that when these territories became states they would push the old guard aside and put the country in the hands of amateurs at best and barbarians at worst.
But this is the total of what I have seen mentioned about these territories in the histories that I have read until now.
This book, "The Frontiersman", has demonstrated to me that there is a void in my knowledge of U. History of which I was unaware. This book did a great deal to fill in some of this void and arouse a curiosity for further delving into this area of history.
Reading some of the reviews and comments about the book as well as the author's note there seems to be some minor controversies about details and whether or not the author used a bit of artistic license in some areas.
However, nobody seems to challenge the facts of the various events written about. In his notes the author does mention the extensive amount or source material used for the book and that there is conflict within these sources so I am willing to overlook imaginative reporting of details as long as the fundamental history is accurate.
If I had any skepticism about the accuracy of this book it would be because of the exploits of the main character, Simon Kenton.
Daniel Boone is frequently mentioned in the book but the activities of Kenton are every bit as noteworthy and as extensive as anything Boone is noted for.
If this history is in fact accurate then why isn't Kenton as well known as Boone? I doubt that Boone had a better PR person than Kenton and they were both close friends and would never have attempted to steal anyone's thunder.
I guess this is one of those mysteries about the reporting of history that simply can't be explained but it does appear that the memory of Simon Kenton has been severely shortchanged.
Now what history does this book exactly cover? The book's history spans the years beginning shortly after the French and Indian War up to the mid 's.
The thread of this history follows the lives of primarily two people and to a lesser extent a third person. The third person is an adolescent named Marmaduke "Duke" Van Swearingen who voluntarily allows himself to be kidnapped and adopted into the Shawnee Indian tribe in order to spare his younger brother.
Duke becomes a very successful Shawnee tribesman and rises to become a respected chief and contemporary of Tecumseh. In later years Duke, now known as Blue Jacket, is reunited with his now adult younger brother in a manner only a fiendish fate could have created.
The exploits of these young men is followed through the settling of the Kentucky, Ohio, and Indiana area and vividly depicts what life was like in these wilderness areas in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
I greatly appreciated reading for the first time of what was happening in the West while our Revolution was being fought in the East and how alone and forgotten these settlers were because all military resources were focused on fighting the British.
Indians supplied with guns and ammunition by the British made their lives a nightmare and their defense was entirely up to them.
Reading about the great events and personages of history is enjoyable but reading a history like this is far better. This book is about the ordinary people just trying to survive and build a life for themselves and their families.
The difficulties they had to endure defy meaningful description but the author does an exceptional job. Every review of this book seems to make a point of warning the reader of the gruesome violence contained in these pages.
Indeed the warnings are worth taking but the violence is typical of what you would encounter in reading any history of the conflicts whites had with our native Americans.
What you might not expect is that the behavior of the whites toward the Indians is every bit as ugly and barbaric and neither side is able to claim victimhood in this history.
The violence begat more violence until there was little difference between the parties of these disputes. The sad part is that the violence continued for another century and spanned the continent.
Aside from the violence, however, the author fully reports the formation of small villages and hamlets that were to grow to the towns and cities we are familiar with today.
An enjoyable feature of the book is the notes section of the book where the author has taken pains to locate the present location of the sites of the historic events depicted in the book.
I cannot believe that every resident of Kentucky and Ohio, especially those living along the Ohio River, do not possess and are completely familiar with this book as it is their foundation history in all its muddy, bloody, and challenging detail.
The only criticism I could have of this book is its length. At just under pages of text the book is a daunting read but it is worth the effort.
View all 6 comments. Jul 06, Mitzi rated it it was amazing Shelves: historical-fiction. The research that went into this book is mind boggling, but when you add to it that this is just one in a series of SIX it is almost too much to fathom!
I agree with the other reviews that say it is a tragedy that Simon Kenton isn't more well known, I developed a hardcore history crush on him as I read this book.
View all 3 comments. My first Eckert, and probably my second or third experience with this strange and hard-to-define "narrative" style. From my understanding, it exists in that esoteric space between fiction and non; it reads as a novel, but hews too closely to an academic vibe with use of primary sources, etc.
I like it! You can get the immersive, intense experience of a well-researched novel without the usual necessary factual sket My first Eckert, and probably my second or third experience with this strange and hard-to-define "narrative" style.
You can get the immersive, intense experience of a well-researched novel without the usual necessary factual sketchiness and outright invention.
Eckert's prose is workmanlike but still pretty in a utilitarian way and he obviously has a deep love and knowledge of the Ohio area, which is crucial as people are constantly running around it doing all kinds of stuff and the details really bring it to life in your head.
The overarching plot is indeed about the settlement read: conquest of the Northwest Territory and thusly it has a sizable cast of people from all walks of life.
However, it's particularly focused on two men: Simon Kenton and Tecumseh. Kenton is certainly an interesting figure That said, Tecumseh was unquestionably the more interesting of the two for me.
After the Shawnees had been forced further and further west by the military victories and weak-ass duplicitous treaties of the whites, he was the best chance for a turning of the tides not only for the Shawnee but for many of the other native nations of the continent.
He proves himself again and again to not only be a clever, brave and formidable statesman and warrior but to be compassionate, constantly speaking out against the brutal torture his fellow natives would put captured Europeans through I have a clear and obvious bias for the native peoples here and fervently wanted Tecumseh to violently throw off the greedy yoke of the encroaching whites.
It's impossible to avoid discussing the horrible, horrible violence in this book. There are countless scenes of murder, torture and mutilation perpetrated by both sides and they are portrayed very vividly.
I consider myself fairly desensitized to this kind of thing, as most people who enjoy history probably do. That said, there were several scenes in this book that just made my blood run cold as fucking ice, particularly the nauseating Gnadenhutten massacre.
I imagine that for people living in this area today reading this book would be something like reading a news clipping about a particularly long and gruesome series of murders that happened a long time ago in your house.
I really have to give humanity credit for the inventive and thoroughly disgusting ways we've managed to kill each other during our wonderful time on Earth.
All in all a very bittersweet experience. It's a grand story but it's also disturbing to read this stuff as a citizen of the country that is coldly hacking through and shitting on so much humanity in these pages.
Maybe bittersweet isn't the world Still, it's all very valuable reading to anyone interested in any of the numerous subjects it covers, even if you only have a passing interest like I did when I started it.
As usual I have to give nerd credit to the multiple well-made maps and illustrations sprinkled artfully throughout the book.
I'm certainly going to continue on with the series, but not until the trauma fades. View all 9 comments.
Even in the realm of narrative history, this is fairly unique. In this fashion, Google Maps makes virtual changes to the real city. All of these apps function via interfaces with Google Maps and create new forms of digital capitalism and commodification.
An additional mapping market is provided by self-driving cars; again, Google has already established a position for itself. With its Geo Tools, Google has created a platform that allows users and businesses to interact with maps in a novel way.
This means that questions relating to power in the discourse of cartography have to be reformulated.
simon eckert immobilien.I enjoyed this a lot, found it interesting and learned about things that I think more people should learn about.
Shelves: for-my-boys , favorites. One of the best written historical novels about the settling of the American "West" at the time of the Revolutionary War.
Western Ohio that is. I rated The Frontiersmen a five star because it changed my view of American history. Eckert is a master at transporting the reader back to a historical moment, creating a good story around the facts, and making the reader care.
This book left me in awe of our ancestors' ability to survive. This was a ruthless time and both Whites and Native Americans did One of the best written historical novels about the settling of the American "West" at the time of the Revolutionary War.
This was a ruthless time and both Whites and Native Americans did unthinkable deeds. Heroes in the movies we pay to see today, really did exist.
I read this book right after I read The Founding Brothers. My favorite book. View 1 comment. One of my favorite areas of history is that of the founding of our country, it's earliest roots, it's struggle with British rule, our Revolution, and then the creation of our government and it's struggle to succeed.
During my reading of that history of the nation's early years mention is made of the people in the Western area of the new nation.
By Western area what was meant was the land between the Mississippi River the mountains of the East. From this area problems arose for the leaders of the One of my favorite areas of history is that of the founding of our country, it's earliest roots, it's struggle with British rule, our Revolution, and then the creation of our government and it's struggle to succeed.
From this area problems arose for the leaders of the original 13 Colonies. There was concern that Sectionalism would cause these Western residents to fall into the schemes of European nations or local political intriguers like Aaron Burr or James Wilkinson.
There was even a Whiskey Revolt in Western Pennsylvania that had to be put down by Washington himself. There was also concern that probably masked jealousy on the part of the Original Colonies that when these territories became states they would push the old guard aside and put the country in the hands of amateurs at best and barbarians at worst.
But this is the total of what I have seen mentioned about these territories in the histories that I have read until now.
This book, "The Frontiersman", has demonstrated to me that there is a void in my knowledge of U. History of which I was unaware.
This book did a great deal to fill in some of this void and arouse a curiosity for further delving into this area of history. Reading some of the reviews and comments about the book as well as the author's note there seems to be some minor controversies about details and whether or not the author used a bit of artistic license in some areas.
However, nobody seems to challenge the facts of the various events written about. In his notes the author does mention the extensive amount or source material used for the book and that there is conflict within these sources so I am willing to overlook imaginative reporting of details as long as the fundamental history is accurate.
If I had any skepticism about the accuracy of this book it would be because of the exploits of the main character, Simon Kenton. Daniel Boone is frequently mentioned in the book but the activities of Kenton are every bit as noteworthy and as extensive as anything Boone is noted for.
If this history is in fact accurate then why isn't Kenton as well known as Boone? I doubt that Boone had a better PR person than Kenton and they were both close friends and would never have attempted to steal anyone's thunder.
I guess this is one of those mysteries about the reporting of history that simply can't be explained but it does appear that the memory of Simon Kenton has been severely shortchanged.
Now what history does this book exactly cover? The book's history spans the years beginning shortly after the French and Indian War up to the mid 's.
The thread of this history follows the lives of primarily two people and to a lesser extent a third person. The third person is an adolescent named Marmaduke "Duke" Van Swearingen who voluntarily allows himself to be kidnapped and adopted into the Shawnee Indian tribe in order to spare his younger brother.
Duke becomes a very successful Shawnee tribesman and rises to become a respected chief and contemporary of Tecumseh. In later years Duke, now known as Blue Jacket, is reunited with his now adult younger brother in a manner only a fiendish fate could have created.
The exploits of these young men is followed through the settling of the Kentucky, Ohio, and Indiana area and vividly depicts what life was like in these wilderness areas in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
I greatly appreciated reading for the first time of what was happening in the West while our Revolution was being fought in the East and how alone and forgotten these settlers were because all military resources were focused on fighting the British.
Indians supplied with guns and ammunition by the British made their lives a nightmare and their defense was entirely up to them. Reading about the great events and personages of history is enjoyable but reading a history like this is far better.
This book is about the ordinary people just trying to survive and build a life for themselves and their families.
The difficulties they had to endure defy meaningful description but the author does an exceptional job. Every review of this book seems to make a point of warning the reader of the gruesome violence contained in these pages.
Indeed the warnings are worth taking but the violence is typical of what you would encounter in reading any history of the conflicts whites had with our native Americans.
What you might not expect is that the behavior of the whites toward the Indians is every bit as ugly and barbaric and neither side is able to claim victimhood in this history.
The violence begat more violence until there was little difference between the parties of these disputes. The sad part is that the violence continued for another century and spanned the continent.
Aside from the violence, however, the author fully reports the formation of small villages and hamlets that were to grow to the towns and cities we are familiar with today.
An enjoyable feature of the book is the notes section of the book where the author has taken pains to locate the present location of the sites of the historic events depicted in the book.
I cannot believe that every resident of Kentucky and Ohio, especially those living along the Ohio River, do not possess and are completely familiar with this book as it is their foundation history in all its muddy, bloody, and challenging detail.
The only criticism I could have of this book is its length. At just under pages of text the book is a daunting read but it is worth the effort. View all 6 comments.
Jul 06, Mitzi rated it it was amazing Shelves: historical-fiction. The research that went into this book is mind boggling, but when you add to it that this is just one in a series of SIX it is almost too much to fathom!
I agree with the other reviews that say it is a tragedy that Simon Kenton isn't more well known, I developed a hardcore history crush on him as I read this book.
View all 3 comments. My first Eckert, and probably my second or third experience with this strange and hard-to-define "narrative" style.
From my understanding, it exists in that esoteric space between fiction and non; it reads as a novel, but hews too closely to an academic vibe with use of primary sources, etc.
I like it! You can get the immersive, intense experience of a well-researched novel without the usual necessary factual sket My first Eckert, and probably my second or third experience with this strange and hard-to-define "narrative" style.
You can get the immersive, intense experience of a well-researched novel without the usual necessary factual sketchiness and outright invention.
Eckert's prose is workmanlike but still pretty in a utilitarian way and he obviously has a deep love and knowledge of the Ohio area, which is crucial as people are constantly running around it doing all kinds of stuff and the details really bring it to life in your head.
The overarching plot is indeed about the settlement read: conquest of the Northwest Territory and thusly it has a sizable cast of people from all walks of life.
However, it's particularly focused on two men: Simon Kenton and Tecumseh. Kenton is certainly an interesting figure That said, Tecumseh was unquestionably the more interesting of the two for me.
After the Shawnees had been forced further and further west by the military victories and weak-ass duplicitous treaties of the whites, he was the best chance for a turning of the tides not only for the Shawnee but for many of the other native nations of the continent.
He proves himself again and again to not only be a clever, brave and formidable statesman and warrior but to be compassionate, constantly speaking out against the brutal torture his fellow natives would put captured Europeans through I have a clear and obvious bias for the native peoples here and fervently wanted Tecumseh to violently throw off the greedy yoke of the encroaching whites.
It's impossible to avoid discussing the horrible, horrible violence in this book. There are countless scenes of murder, torture and mutilation perpetrated by both sides and they are portrayed very vividly.
I consider myself fairly desensitized to this kind of thing, as most people who enjoy history probably do. That said, there were several scenes in this book that just made my blood run cold as fucking ice, particularly the nauseating Gnadenhutten massacre.
I imagine that for people living in this area today reading this book would be something like reading a news clipping about a particularly long and gruesome series of murders that happened a long time ago in your house.
I really have to give humanity credit for the inventive and thoroughly disgusting ways we've managed to kill each other during our wonderful time on Earth.
All in all a very bittersweet experience. It's a grand story but it's also disturbing to read this stuff as a citizen of the country that is coldly hacking through and shitting on so much humanity in these pages.
Maybe bittersweet isn't the world Still, it's all very valuable reading to anyone interested in any of the numerous subjects it covers, even if you only have a passing interest like I did when I started it.
As usual I have to give nerd credit to the multiple well-made maps and illustrations sprinkled artfully throughout the book.
I'm certainly going to continue on with the series, but not until the trauma fades. View all 9 comments. Even in the realm of narrative history, this is fairly unique.
The Frontiersmen reads much like a novel, but it is as historically sourced as possible and contains a fair number of endnotes, though more for explaining context rather than giving sources.
Because of the format, Eckert is at pains to describe how he put his book together in a foreword. And it works.
It did take some getting used to, as my history-reading and novel-reading instincts clashed for a bit. The book presents much of the Even in the realm of narrative history, this is fairly unique.
The book presents much of the immediate feel of life on the frontier, which is something inevitably lost in most historical works, but well-conveyed by fiction.
Kenton is one of the central figures of the American move across the Appalachians, though not as well known as contemporaries such as Daniel Boone possibly because Boone came first, and naturally attracted much of the story telling of the time.
As a partial balance, the book also traces Temcumseh's entire life. Overall, both sides of what was happening in the area is presented, with attention paid to atrocities perpetrated by settlers and Indians.
It still concentrates more on activities of the settlers, but that is where the records are, and it is not Eckert's purpose to split hairs by finely examining archeology and oral traditions.
However, Eckert's book does suffer from its formatting. Each chapter consists of a large number of subchapters, each of which is dated. Normally, this works out well, and is handy to place the chronology, but there's plenty of sections that are just summaries of the previous few months, and towards the end there are entire years that are summarized with a 'December 31' entry.
I'd like to see more narrative history in general, and I think this format is good enough that it deserves to be used more than it has been.
But while this is a good book, I can't help but feel like its still a little too limited. I read this book long ago and really enjoyed it.
It may be harder to track down now I plan to "re-read" this if I can make room on my list. I read it back in the '70s and liked it a lot.
Hope I can work in a reread. I read this first in and always remembered it as a good read. It is, it's so good I've decided to up my rating to 5 stars.
This book is history but written with all the excitement and interes I read this book long ago and really enjoyed it. This book is history but written with all the excitement and interest of a novel.
While Mr. Eckert may put words in the mouths of the characters as he imagines conversation the events in the book are historically accurate.
You'll come away from this book feeling as if you knew the people involved. The picture here is also one of reality.
There's no way not to come away with a better understanding of what happened to the Native Americans and what they lost. Of course another thing we came away understanding is that to the settlers there was not the idea of robbing the natives they were just in a war.
Like all people in all wars you end up fighting for the one next to you not some idea. Hatred blossomed between so many of the participants while others grew in respect for each other.
This is an exceptionally good book and a good history. If approached with an open mind I think a lot of insight can be had.
I recommend this and for that matter Allan W. Eckert's other work. I've read the 'Frontiersmen' three or four times; it's a magnificent book.
Be that as it may, I do find one shortcoming regarding Eckert's narrative. In the introduction, the author states that his book is fact, not fiction.
Unfortunately, this is not entirely correct. Without a doubt, Eckert dramatizes a lot of the events that occurred during the time period in which 'The Frontiersmen' takes place.
Too, he writes convincingly about a few incidents that have no basis for historical accuracy or c I've read the 'Frontiersmen' three or four times; it's a magnificent book.
Too, he writes convincingly about a few incidents that have no basis for historical accuracy or certainty. To Eckert's credit, however, he did make amends for some of his unsupported and erroneous 'facts' in 'The Frontiersmen' when he wrote his subsequent books 'A Sorrow in Our Heart,' and 'That Dark and Bloody River.
Great Book. Good History of the settlement of Kentucky and Ohio. Mar 04, Adambmour rated it it was amazing. This is a revisit to my childhood.
I had to read this in middle school over the summer. But, upon reading it as an adult, I thoroughly enjoyed it. The Frontiersmen chronicles the life of Simon Kenton a Kentucky frontiersman and Tecumseh the leader of the Shawnee and the events surrounding the white expansion into what is now known as Ohio and Kentucky.
Unlike many historical books, Eckert uses various resources, journals, newspap This is a revisit to my childhood.
Unlike many historical books, Eckert uses various resources, journals, newspaper articles, etc to create a narrative of the life of the two main characters.
Also, my new kitten is named after a random person identified in the book named Pemberton. So, props to that. Still, I decided to stick with it for historical value.
After all, Eckert promises that everything in here is authentic. But when I got to the story of Marmaduke van Swearingen, a white boy adopted by the Shawnee who later became the great war chief Blue Jacket, alarm bells went off in my head.
Nov 03, Jim rated it it was amazing. What a great book. I think this should be required reading for for youth. Not just about interesting history, but human nature and Christianity.
Ok, sure some controversy about BlueJacket and his genetics, and books statements, but I see as a small blemish.
A lot to be learned in this book about the faults of humanity and incredible history. Mar 30, Bob Mayer rated it really liked it. All of Eckert's books are classics.
When the frontier was in the eastern United States. His books give us history, up close and personal. Aug 23, John Carey rated it it was amazing.
A telling of the white man settling the Ohio River valley and the Native American response, mostly through severely underrated historical figures, Simon Kenton and Tecumseh.
Though ultimately a narrative, the author claims every line of dialouge was taken from a historical source which was mind boggling and at times borderline impossible to believe.
While time and research has nitpicked the book for inaccuracies here and there, I'm not sure he could have written a more well researched book when A telling of the white man settling the Ohio River valley and the Native American response, mostly through severely underrated historical figures, Simon Kenton and Tecumseh.
While time and research has nitpicked the book for inaccuracies here and there, I'm not sure he could have written a more well researched book when you look at the myriad of sources.
I'm inclined to believe it's a great first order approximation of what really happened. I also appreciated him letting the story tell itself for the most part and leaving the moralizing up to the reader.
The obvious and simple conclusion is that the whites did extreme wrong to the Native Americans, but not delving deeper does a disservice to the epic story behind the conclusion.
I'm by no means an expert but I now have dumbfounded respect for Tecumseh and a better understanding of the tribes whose names are merely places where I live.
Not only was its level of detail, knowledge, and interpretation deep but its storyline and dialogue captivating. Personally, being born and raised in Pittsburgh, reading about the settling of the frontier in my area was fascinating, and I was constantly looking up modern names for the original settlements.
I did find reading about the true history of the Native American genocide disheartening, as the main character of the book was determined only to advance the lands of the young US.
I frequently found myself at odds with his heroics, as they were often at the expense of some great tribal nation who only sought to maintain the land they were born in.
How different it would have been if the tribal amalgamation had been a success, and how sad it is that our destruction of their way of life and reneging of sworn treaties are what often get left out of US textbooks.
Apr 18, Jacob rated it it was amazing Shelves: owned. The author did a fantastic job employing narrative to detail the history of the Northwest Territory.
This book did justice to both the early American frontiersmen and the Native Americans by accurately surveying both their heroic acts of bravery and their shameful acts of cowardice.
It was fascinating to read about the people and events that so greatly impacted the development of the state of Ohio. If you are from the area and are at all interested in local history, this book is a must-read.
Jul 15, Peggy rated it it was amazing. This story focuses mostly on Simon Kenton who was a brave woodsman,fighter and scout. At a very young age he was forced to leave his family and forge a life of his own.
Also featured is the great warrior chief of the Shawnees, Tecumseh , who was able to assemble all of the Indian tribes and almost defeated the whites who came to make America their home.
This is a sad story and yet a brave one. When you read what the settlers went through to claim the land and also what the Indians went through to protect their heritage it makes you appreciate the beginnings of our Ohio.
It is a gruesome story as these were gruesome times. The story begins very slowly but as I got to the middle of the book I couldn't put it down.
The author has researched this time period so extensively and writes so beautifully that he puts you right there. It took a long time to read as it is over pages but it was an important era of our history.
I learned so much from this book I can't wait to read another of his books as he wrote several of that time period. Sep 18, Jeffrey McDowell rated it it was amazing.
One of the most informative and gripping accounts I've read. It focuses on the struggles of early westward expansion from the mid- to lates to the time of the early s.
I would highly recommend this book to anyone interested in American history. Oct 08, Faith Justice rated it really liked it Shelves: ebook.
The author calls this a novel about the settling of whites beyond the Allegheny Mountains, primarily in Kentucky and Ohio, but also a bit beyond to Indiana, Tennessee and Missouri.
It reads like non-fiction--straightforward narrative with chapter notes. The author does impute emotions to the characters in a novelistic way.
The dialog is supposedly taken from diaries and published accounts. I found the writing plain but the history fascinating, especially since I grew up in Ohio and was somewhat The author calls this a novel about the settling of whites beyond the Allegheny Mountains, primarily in Kentucky and Ohio, but also a bit beyond to Indiana, Tennessee and Missouri.
I found the writing plain but the history fascinating, especially since I grew up in Ohio and was somewhat familiar with many of the characters.
And there are a lot of characters. Allan W. Eckert deals with all the leading Native Americans, U. He covers the establishment of nearly every city and village native or settler in the area; every raid and murder again on both sides and military actions.
It sometimes became a bit overwhelming, but his "touchstone" characters were the famous frontiersman Simon Kenton and legendary Shawnee chief Tecumseh.
He filled in the background on their parents, siblings and lives from birth to death. Eckert began and ended the book with Kenton's story and regularly returned to him during the narrative.
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