Simon Girty the White Savage

1928. Boyd is best known for his novel, Through the Wheat, which is based on his war experiences. One of the earliest and best of the realistic war novels, it made his reputation. This is his biography of Simon Girty, the famous traitor and renegade. Contents: Then Girty's Name and Girty's Fame; Excursions and Alarms; A Rough Neck's First Thirty Years; Wherein the Scoundrel Saves a Hero from Roasting at the Stake; Simon Becomes Morose, His Scalp Causes Him Some Concern; Those Damned Missionaries, and the Butchering and Burning of Their Hapless Brood; Wherein Vengeance Carelessly Takes the Wrong Man; With One War Ended and None Other at Hand Simon Takes a Wife; Wherein Two Generals Lose Their Armies; Simon Drives a Quill Through His Nostrils; The Long Shadow of Mad Anthony Wayne; and The Last Ride from the Tavern.Boyd, Thomas is the author of 'Simon Girty the White Savage' with ISBN 9780766195059 and ISBN 0766195058.