Ancient Civilizations of North America

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Again I cannot stress enough what good reads Alan Eckerts books are as most Americans are completely ignorant of our frontier history and what a frightening era it was.

Was harder getting native Americans out of NW Ohio ,then anywhere else.

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You'd like them. We could also visit the Piatt Castles in the Indian Lake region. It's near where the old Shawnee village of Mackachack where Simon Kenton was first forced to run the guantlet after being captured. I believe that one of Kenton's Kentucky Long Rifles (a misnomer as they were actually made in Pennsylvania) is on display at one of the Piatt Castles. I've always found it odd that Daniel Boone is far better remembered than Kenton given Kenton's history.

But yea I find the regions archeological and frontier history to be absolutely fascinating. Your average person has absolutely no clue how much the geography has changed by the advent of civilization and how damned dangerous it was on the frontier.

Daniel Boone was in Congress and The Alamo.
But Kenyon is a legend.

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Again I cannot stress enough what good reads Alan Eckerts books are as most Americans are completely ignorant of our frontier history and what a frightening era it was.

I really liked Eckert's book on The Shawnee Prophet!

[Mott the Hoople]

Daniel Boone was in Congress and The Alamo.
But Kenyon is a legend.

I think you're confusing Boone with Crockett.

[Mott the Hoople]

I really liked Eckert's book on The Shawnee Prophet!

Which one? He played a central role in three of them. The Frontiersman, That Dark and Bloody River and Tecumseh!

[Mott the Hoople]

Was harder getting native Americans out of NW Ohio ,then anywhere else.

The Native Americans of the NE and Great Lakes Region in the 18th Century were some of the finest guerrilla fighters the world has seen.

"Only a few white men were ever as good as the Indians at the Indian game. Boone and Kenton were..." Frederick Palmer, Clark of the Ohio (1929).

[Mason Michaels]

I think you're confusing Boone with Crockett.

You're right,Fess Parker played them both

[Mason Michaels]

Which one? He played a central role in three of them. The Frontiersman, That Dark and Bloody River and Tecumseh!

R David Edmunds wrote a book about the Shawnee Prophet,besides those three,I have the Tecumseh book,I read one of the other two,besides the Shawnee Prophet book.

[Mason Michaels]

It was R David Edmunds not Eckert that wrote the book on the Shawnee Prophet

[Mott the Hoople]

It was R David Edmunds not Eckert that wrote the book on the Shawnee Prophet

Tenskwatawa.

[Mason Michaels]

Tenskwatawa.

Loose translation Loudmouth!One of my favorite historical figures!

[Mott the Hoople]

Loose translation Loudmouth!One of my favorite historical figures!

He was a character all right. Lucky his brother didn't tomahawk him.

[Cypress]

Apparently, the relatively sophisticated Mississippian indigenous civilization that flourished east of the Mississipi River was disrupted and decimated by Hernano de Soto in the 1530s, which reportedly included a lot of slaughter, murder, mayhem, and introduction of European diseases the indigenous people had no immunity for. That seems to be one reason when widespread contact occurred between English settlers and native peoples later in the 16 and 1700s, the settlers viewed the indigenous people as relatively backwards and incapable of sophisticated civilization. The settlers actually were not really aware of indigenous North American civilizations prior to disruption and widespread European contact.

"In 1539, Hernando de Soto of Spain landed seven ships with 600 men and hundreds of animals in present-day Florida. Follow his fruitless search for another Inca or Aztec Empire, as he instead encounters hundreds of Mississippian cities through which he led a three-year reign of terror across the land-looting, raping, disfiguring, murdering, and enslaving native peoples by the thousands."

Professor Edwin Barnhart, Ph.D.
Maya Exploration Center

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He was a character all right. Lucky his brother didn't tomahawk him.

If I remember right,he was one of triplets

[Mott the Hoople]

If I remember right,he was one of triplets

Im not sure that has been proven. It it is believed to be the case.