This is Book 1 of Eckert's Narratives of America, based on the true history of American Indians and their tug-of-war with white settlers. In this wonderful, fiction-enhanced account of our westward expansion, you can't help becoming caught up in the page-turner while learning some amazing things about the Shawnee Indians.

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This time period in history is my favorite. This is a fast moving book that kept my interest to the end. There is today controversy as to whether "Blue Jacket" of the Shawnee was really a white man or not. Another good book by Eckert is "That Dark and Bloody River" I live about 2 hours from Pittsburgh and this book covers areas I am familiar with.

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Very informative book about the early United States and it's taking more land from the Indians.

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An historical narrative that flows quickly and wows the reader with adventure... real adventure that happened here!

There were a lot of events going during the 1770's that amazes you that the revolution occurred and was successful. I've visited many revolutionary war historical sites and am insterested in this period of our history, but was somewhat ignorant of the political intriques, boundary disputes and other challenges for the new nation that were going on concurrently to the revolution. This story is a great gap filler.

There's great accounts of the struggles between the white settlers and Shawnee nation. One group fighting to create a new home and one fighting to save their homes. Righteous cruelty??????? I think not, but emotions motivate poor decisions.

I've thoroughly enjoyed this novel and am eager to read the rest of the series.

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From the book cover, "THE INTERPRETER is the story of Conrad Weiser, the pioneer who led the German colonists from New York to Pennsylvania where they could live free of British rule. During the French and Indian War, Weiser's story intertwines with the Mohawk warrior, Hendrick Forked-Paths, and the shaman, Island Woman, whose dreams are magical and portentious. Robert Moss brings alive a world of wonders and horrors, dreams and visions, love and strife, in a powerful novel of the crucible in which America was formed."

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