Contents

Preface

Maps

Prologue  Dawn of the Long Knives

PART ONE

1  The Great Awakening

2  A Restless People

3  A Turbulent Youth

4  A Nation Divided

5  War and Wanderings

6  Out from the Shadows

7  The Making of a Chief

8  A Culture in Crisis

PART TWO

9  A Prophet Arises

10  Black Sun

11  Greenville Interlude

12  A Double Game

13  One Treaty Too Many

14  No Difficulties Deter Him

15  Southern Odyssey

16  The Prophet Stumbles

17  From the Ashes of Prophetstown

PART THREE

18  Into the Maelstrom

19  Kindred Spirits

20  A Man of Mercy

21  An Adequate Sacrifice to Indian Opinion

22  Death on the Thames

23  Twilight of the Prophet

Illustrations

APPENDIX  The Indian World of the Shawnee Brothers

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography