![]() ![]() ![]() Without the restraints of a biographer, Thom is able to get into the thoughts and emotions of his characters. Without the use of primitive expressions, the dialogue has a ring of reality about it. Yet with “Panther in the Sky,” James Alexander Thom shows how in honest and capable hands fictionalized biography can add verisimilitude of the life and times of this extraordinary American. His fame was a welder of tribal alliances surpassed that of any other Indian leader. The names of Washington, Jefferson, Mad Anthony Wayne, George Rogers Clark, William Henry Harrison were known to him from afar or on battlefields where he fought them. He grew up while the United States was coming into being. ![]() After all, Tecumseh’s career from boyhood was filled with dramatic action. Readers who have some knowledge of Tecumseh, the great Shawnee leader, may wonder how a novel based upon his life could improve upon any good factual biography. ![]()
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