White Warrior: The Life of Stephen Ruddell

Author:   Tonya Ruddell
Publisher:   Independently Published
ISBN:  

9798250749503


Pages:   42
Publication Date:   05 March 2026
Format:   Paperback
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White Warrior: The Life of Stephen Ruddell


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In the summer of 1780, twelve-year-old Stephen Ruddell watched from the stockade walls of Ruddell's Station as a British cannon tore through the Kentucky frontier. Captured by Shawnee warriors alongside his younger brother Abraham, Stephen was marched north into a world of painted trees, longhouses, and new names. Adopted into the tribe, he became Sinnamatha-Big Fish-the boy who carried his brother through fever and snow, who learned the bow and the tomahawk, who stood beside the rising war chief Tecumseh as the dream of a united Native confederacy took fire. Torn between two worlds, Stephen loved fiercely across divides: Nahimana, She-Who-Waits, the Shawnee woman whose quiet strength anchored him through years of war; Sarah, the gentle schoolteacher who taught him healing after grief; Rebecca, the steadfast widow who shared his final decades. Through raids, battles, and the shattering fall of Tecumseh at the Thames, Stephen carried the weight of loyalty, loss, and unbreakable love-father to children on both sides of the Mississippi, preacher to settlers who once feared the painted warrior he had been. A sweeping tale of frontier violence, captivity, adoption, and redemption, Big Fish: The Life of Stephen Ruddell is a deeply moving portrait of a man who lived between worlds, loved across them, and carried the fire of two peoples until the river finally brought him home. Partial fiction, deeply rooted in history.

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Author:   Tonya Ruddell
Publisher:   Independently Published
Imprint:   Independently Published
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 0.20cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.072kg
ISBN:  

9798250749503


Pages:   42
Publication Date:   05 March 2026
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order   Availability explained
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