Lewis Cass Frontier Soldier

Knowing that the American government gave
rations to needy citizens and friendly Indians,
Kishkawko brazenly went to the authorities
in Detroit for food. "... for unless my young
men get something to eat", he said insolently,
"it will be impossible to restrain them
from robbing settlers along the route. "

Lewis strode to the center of his office at
the fort and faced Kishkawko. He looked
squarely into the black- browed eyes and
said, "Sir, if your young men commit any
depredations against the settlers, I will send
MY young men to punish them."

Angry, the band stalked out of the fort,
lashed their horses and sped away, forced
to hunt for their dinner in the woods.

Later, Kishkawko killed a fellow Indian
near Detroit. He was arrested and jailed
in town where it was said, he took his own
life by poison herbs which a tribal squaw
smuggled to him.

Lewis Cass—Frontier Soldier tells a
fast-moving story of Lewis's early life
in New Hampshire. It dramatizes his
adventures in the Michigan Territory
when redskins outnumbered palefaces
by four to one. It depicts Cass's
heroics during the many Indian
treaties and confrontations, and
traces his exciting four-thousand mile
canoe expedition.

Most of all, the biography concen-
trates on the first half of Cass's active,
rugged life to reveal him as an ag-
gressive but compassionate "father"
to the Indians and settlers alike.

Although Frontier Soldier reads as
easily as fiction, it is accurately re-
searched. Whenever possible, actual
quotations are used in the dialogue.