Post by Matthew S. Schweitzer on Nov 7, 2008 18:09:57 GMT -5
Painting depicting Simon Girty pleading for the life of frontiersman Simon Kenton in the Shawnee council house at Wapatomica in 1778. Thanks to Hal Sherman for doing this wonderful painting for me.
"Will we let ourselves be destroyed in our turn without a struggle, give up our homes, our country bequeathed to us by the Great Spirit, the graves of our dead and everything that is dear and sacred to us? I know you will cry with me, 'Never! Never!" Tecumseh