<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">To secure the old Northwest he waged our first cold war, which came to a climax in the Battle of Fallen Timbers</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> Only Tecumseh came close to uniting the warring tribes, but his British allies and his less visionary people failed him</span> </p>
<p>David McCullough’s latest book tells the story of a small group of Revolutionary War veterans and pioneers who set out on an extraordinary 800-mile journey through the wilderness to establish the first settlement in the Ohio Territory. </p>
<p>While his brother Tecumseh was assembling the greatest Indian confederation the United States army would ever confront, the “Prophet” launched a fateful preemptive attack in Indiana Territory in 1811.</p>
