James Alexander Thom

Rich, colorful and bursting with excitement, this remarkable story turns James Alexander Thom's power and passion for American history to the epic story of Tecumseh's life and give us a heart-thumping novel of one man's magnificent destiny-to unite his people in the struggle to save their land and their way of life from the relentless press of the white settlers."Oh, what a man this will be, with such a sign as that!"In 1768, when Turtle Mother gave birth to a strong baby boy in the heart of the Shawnee nation, a green-yellow shooting star streaked across the heavens.
Hard Striker saw the unsoma, the birth sign, and named his son Tecumseh, meaning Panther in the Sky .