Joseph Brant, 1743-1807: Man of Two Worlds (Iroquois Book) (Iroquois and Their Neighbors) - Softcover

Kelsay, Isabel Thompson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0815602081 ISBN 13: 9780815602088

Publisher: Syracuse University Press, 1986

Synopsis

Discusses the life of the Mohawk chief who tried to reestablish the freedom of his people

About this title

Review:

As close and thorough an investigation of available resource material as one can humanly make, certainly as has yet been made. . . . All that one can ask of a biography.--The New York Times Book Review

Superb. . . . An important and outstandingly researched biography. --Choice

Highly readable . . . . Richly detailed history.--Publishers Weekly

A fine and enduring biography of a major Indian leader.--The American Historical Review

An extremely valuable study. Exhaustively researched and well written, it calls attention to Brant's historical significance. In addition, it corrects numerous myths about Brant.--William and Mary Quarterly

About the Author:

Isabel Thompson Kelsay was born in Appalachia. In a small local school she fell in love with history and has involved herself in it, in one way or another, ever since. Kelsay holds academic degrees from three universities--Tennessee, Wisconsin, and Columbia. She has taught on the Iroquois at the Seminars in American Culture at Cooperstown, New York, and has contributed to Calendar of North Carolina and Tennessee Papers, Dictionary of Canadian Biography, New York History, and East Tennessee Historical Review.

About this edition

• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0815602081
• ISBN 13: 9780815602088
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 792