Dragging Canoe

Image was selected for inclusion in the book An Excursion To The Past by Curtis N. Coulter.
A 2nd book is including this photo as well. A Nation... more

by Jim Cook

Title

Dragging Canoe

Artist

Jim Cook

Medium

Photograph - Phography, Digital Art

Description

Image was selected for inclusion in the book "An Excursion To The Past" by Curtis N. Coulter.
A 2nd book is including this photo as well. "A Nation Born – A Homeland Lost: Native Americans and the Revolutionary War Era" by George J Bryjak
This Cherokee Indian was known as "Dragging Canoe". Being too small to carry a canoe he earned his name as a small boy. Eager to join the tribes warriors in battle he dragged a canoe towards the river.

He was a scarred survivor of chicken pox which left pockmarks on his face.
But from a child he grew into a fearsome war chief. He was called the Red Napoleon and still today he is considered to be a military genius.

He waged a 18 year war against the whites who kept encroaching on the Indian lands that had been agreed to through a contract to purchase millions of acres that included Kentucky and what is known now as Middle Tennessee. It was the largest sale of land in North American History. It was called the Transylvania Purchase.

The battle was occurring at the same time that the Declaration of Independence was being written.

This life size mannequin was photographed while at the beautiful museum in Sycamore Shoals State Park in Elizabethton Tennessee.

AVAILABLE as a rolled print, poster, framed fine art print, metal, acrylic, wood or canvas print. Framed and canvas prints for your home, restaurant, hotel, bed and breakfast, office, waiting room, etc.

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July 9th, 2018