A book by the author of The Traitor and the Spy and Gilbert Stuart,
etc., is always a literary event; this biography of Sir William
Johnson of New York, Mohawk chief (Warraghiyagey), English baronet,
perhaps the ablest organizer and frontiersman in the whole history
of Western expansion, fills a long-vacant space in American
pre-Revolutionary annals. Johnson, born near Dublin in 1715, came
to America in 1737 where his uncle Peter Warren, married into the
powerful De Lancey family, established him in a trading-store in
the Mohawk Valley, the land of the Iroquois, the Six Nations; here
for the rest of his life he lived, making millions from furs, land,
and his fair treatment of the Indians, whom he advised to their
benefit and his profit. The Mohawks, who loved him and with cause
trusted him, adopted him as Chief Warraghiyagey; for his services
in organizing the Indians in King George's and the French &
Indian Wars the British made him a baronet. A lover of women and
the father of endless illegitimate children, he was adored by his
mistresses; loving luxury, he built mansions, entertained thousands
of guests and made gardens; had he not died in 1774, before the
Revolution, he might as a King's man have changed the course of
history. This documented lengthy account of a lusty, brilliant,
amoral American and his background will appeal to students of
American history, biography and pre-Revolutionary politics. (Kirkus
Reviews)
William Johnson was among the most powerful and romantic figures in
early American history. Beginning as an impoverished eighteenth
century Irish immigrant, he became the wealthiest and most
influential Indian leader on the North American continent. Married
to Molly Brant, sister of the celebrated Mohawk Joseph Brant,
Johnson served as a mediator in the evolving clash of the European
and Native American cultures. This new edition brings back into
print a classic work that will be welcomed reading for all those
interested in early American history and American-Indian relations.
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