The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, January 1st, 2008
Mr. Jefferson's Hammer: William Henry Harrison and the Origins of American Indian Policy * Robert M. Owens * Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007 * xxx, 312 pp. * $34.95
Robert M. Owens points out in his preface that writing on William Henry Harrison has long been hampered by the difficulty of locating primary materials. Many of Harrison's personal papers were lost in a nineteenth-century fire. This lack of primary sources was partially remedied in 1999 when the Indiana Historical Society published a ten-reel microfilm edition of Harrison papers for the period from 1800 to 1815. These p...
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