Wilderness Empire

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Bantam, 1980 - Fiction - 753 pages
A sweeping portrait of the French & Indian Wars.

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Allan W. Eckert was born in Buffalo, New York on January 30, 1931. He served in the United States Air Force and attended the University of Dayton and Ohio State University. He was a historian, naturalist, novelist, poet, screenwriter and playwright. He wrote over 40 books during his lifetime including A Time of Terror: The Great Dayton Flood, Wild Season, The Silent Sky, The Frontiersmen, Wilderness Empire, The Conquerors, and A Sorrow in Our Heart: The Life of Tecumseh, which were all nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in literature. He received the Newbery Honor Book Award for Incident at Hawk's Hill. He also wrote almost all of the scripts for television's Wild Kingdom and adapted The Frontiersmen into the play Tecumseh! He died of prostate cancer on July 7, 2011 at the age of 80.

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TitleWilderness Empire
Narratives of America, Allan W. Eckert Bk. 2
AuthorAllan W. Eckert
PublisherBantam, 1980
ISBN0553208756, 9780553208757
Length753 pages
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Fiction / Historical / General
History / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775)
  
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