Frontiers: A Story of Chief Charles Renatus Hicks and the New American Nation
- ISBN-10
- 1496066987
- ISBN-13
- 9781496066985
- Series
- Frontiers
- Category
- Cherokee Indians
- Pages
- 508
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-05-23
- Author
- James Allen Murray
Description
Frontiers: A Story of Chief Charles Renatus Hicks and the New American Nation picks-up where the author's first historical novel leaves off, at the British surrender at Yorktown in 1781. The main character is the little-known historical character, Chief Charles Renatus Hicks, the first non-full-blood chief of the Cherokee Nation.Charles' story intermingles with other historic events and people during the shaping of the new nation 1781-1827. It follows the events as they actually took place in a very exciting and enjoyable read.Murray's first historical novel, Cornerstone: A Story of Peter Francisco & American Independence is now housed in perpetuity at the prestigious Library of Virginia's Special Collections Reading Room at Richmond. Quite an honor for an author's first effort.Frontiers is set in the pioneer settlement of Walker's Creek, Virginia with settlers waiting to move into the Big Sandy Valley of Eastern, Kentucky, Cherokee villages in the Tennessee Valley, early settlements along the Ohio River and the old Northwest Territory. Other settings are Federal Hall in New York City, the city of Philadelphia and the building of Washington, DC.Some of the major events that drive the story are the Chickamauga Wars in the Tennessee and Cumberland Valleys, the Constitutional Convention and the first presidential inauguration, the Indian Wars in the Ohio Country, the Battle of Tippecanoe and the War of 1812.Some of the key historical figures are Dolley Madison, Andy Jackson, William Henry Harrison, Tecumseh, six US Presidents, Aaron Burr and the explorers Lewis & Clark.Chief Charles Renatus Hicks was a young leader of the Wolf Clan of the Cherokee, raised in his mother's clan with the added influence of his American father who traded with the Cherokee villages of the American South. Loving both heritages, Charles saw peace with their "white cousins" was favorable to the raids and scalpings of the Chickamauga Wars. He ran the day-to-day affairs for the nation for sixteen years, encouraging Sequoya in developing a written language for his chosen people, the building of the Cherokee capital at New Echota, and the assimilation of the Cherokee into American society ... to win American favor and fight removal of the tribe to Indian Territory.Other related stories center around statehood battles in Ohio, the laying-out of Franklinton and Columbus, the creation of the Michigan Territory, the disputed elections of 1800 and 1824, and negotiating with the French during the "Reign of Terror" and with Napoleon Bonaparte for the Louisiana Purchase.Frontiers is packed with adventure, romance and Americans dreaming dreams of greatness with the only government in the world with freedom for the individual as the cornerstone of its governance.Readers are certain to shiver at the raid on Jenny Wiley's cabin, and cringe as the British put the torch to Washington.
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