"Daniel Boone is my friend." Tecumseh said to Papquannake. "He is good and kind, sister. He tells us grand stories about his hunts. I could listen to him by the hour. How can I spy on him as the chief has commanded?"

How Tecumseh at sharp risk helped the great wilderness scout to escape and warn his Kentucky settlement is one of the exciting episodes in this story of an Indian boyhood. Every incident has its lively movement and suspense. One flows into another to make a growing flood of action. One trait after another of Tecumseh's character is revealed until you see and know and admire the complete boy.

There's the visit of the Miami to the Shawnee village when all the Shawnee boys were commanded by their chief to let the Miami boys win all the races and contests. And what a trial that was, and what, but for Tecumseh, it might have led to!

There's Tecumseh at the hoop game and in a sham battle.

There's his encounter with the Indian witch.

There are his lessons in endurance, wood-craft and hunting—how to see and hear everything, and how to recognize the tracks of wild game instantly.

There's the little tree with white blossoms and what it meant to the medicine man and to the triplets, Tecumseh's funny little brothers...

From the dust jacket