Chainbreaker's War: A Seneca Chief Remembers the American Revolution An Authentic Narrative edited by Jeanne Winston Adler Books Alexandra Garrett

Alexandra Garrett

The first book that peels back the Yankee mythos and examines the surprisingly rich

based largely on real figures

they do not picture the colonial or revolutionary eras

surveyor general

Chainbreaker's War: A Seneca Chief Remembers the American Revolution An Authentic Narrative edited by Jeanne Winston Adler Books Alexandra GarrettThis authentic narrative of a Seneca war chief recounting his experiences during the American Revolution has been edited for readability, freeing at last the clear, strong voice of the Seneca leader known to American colonists as Governor Blacksnake, who, together with the Mohawk chieftain Joseph Brant and other leaders of the powerful Iroquois Confederation scourged the New York and Pennsylvania frontiers from 1777 to 1783. Chainbreaker's story