E-text prepared by Wallace McLean, Leonard Johnson, and the Project
Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net)
LIFE OF TECUMSEH, AND OF HIS BROTHER THE PROPHET;
With a Historical Sketch of the Shawanoe Indians
by
BENJAMIN DRAKE
Author of _The Life of Black Hawk_, _Tales from the Queen City_, &c. &c.
Cincinnati:
Printed and Published by E. Morgan & Co.
Stereotyped by J.A. James,
Cincinnati.
PREFACE
Many years have elapsed since the author of this volume determined to write the life of TECUMSEH and of his brother the PROPHET, and actually commenced the collection of the materials for its accomplishment. From various causes, the completion of the task has been postponed until the present time. This delay, however, has probably proved beneficial to the work, as many interesting incidents in the lives of these individuals are now embraced in its pages, which could not have been included had it been put to press at an earlier period.
In the preparation of this volume, the author's attention was drawn, to some extent, to the history of the Shawanoe tribe of Indians: and he has accordingly prefixed to the main work, a brief historical narrative of this wandering and warlike nation, with biographical sketches of several of its most distinguished chiefs.
The author is under lasting obligations to a number of gentlemen residing in different sections of…