Edward Butts

A short but action-packed and historically accurate biography of a true Canadian hero and American turncoat. Girty makes an appearance in Allan W. Eckert's The Frontiersman among other works, this gives you his whole story. With the ragged head scar and red bandanna he must have cut a remarkable figure in real life, up there with Boone, Crockett and Simon Kenton. The late 18th century Ohio frontier was one of the more exciting places in history as Indians pushed off their lands further east move into the territory (eg. Delawares) while the French and British fought over it, and later the British and Americans, all forming a mix of alliances broken and remade, characterized by atrocities. It was wild. A few remarkable frontiersman survived long enough to become legends.… (mehr)