Article: Hiawatha, Messenger of Peace.(Children's Review)(Brief Article)

40 pp. McElderry/Macmillan 9/92 ISBN 0-689-50519-1 14.95

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Illustrated with black-and-white photographs and reproductions. What is the truth behind the legend of historical figures? In peeling back accumulated layers of embellishment, Doris Faber and Dennis Brindell Fradin handsomely illuminate the late-nineteenth-century settlement of the Western frontier and the fifteenth-century formation of the Iroquois Federation in what is now the state of New York. The two volumes offer informative introductions to mythic characters, whose lives have been heavily misrepresented. Calamity Jane's real name was Martha Jane Cannary; her renegade life in the Wild ...

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