Warrior Woman: Based on the Life of Nonhelema, Shawnee Woman Chief

Year of Publication
2003
Publication Type
Novel
Number of Pages or Episodes
450 p.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
City
New York
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Abstract
A biographical novel about Nonhelema (1720-1786), a Shawnee chieftess in the Ohio Country. Nonhelema was at the Battle of Bushy Run and was later captured and detained at Ft. Pitt, where she helped compile a Shawnee dictionary.
Author Biography
James Thom (1933— ) is an Indiana writer known well for his historical Westerns which have sold more than two million copies. He served in the U. S. Marines in Korea. Dark Rain (1942— ) is Thom's wife since 1990 and a member of the Shawnee Nation.
Time
1770s-80s
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