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Peril and Possibilities in the Early American West

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“Mad, brutal action against the first available target” 

American militiamen slaughter Lenape Indian Christian converts at Gnadenhutten, March 1782, in the Ohio Territory.

See end note for the book’s Introduction, page xviii, par. 1, lines 6-7. 

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Samuel A. Forman is a historian, physician, educator, and businessperson. He is the president of Oak and Ivy Health Systems and a visiting scientist at Harvard University. Throughout his successful careers as a physician, military officer, and businessman, he has published and lectured on historical topics impacting current issues. His identical surname as the historical protagonists is entirely coincidental; he is unrelated to any of them.

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