Blue Jacket's popularity inspired Allan Eckert to write Johnny Logan, the true story of a Shawnee who became a U.S. spy, and it was first published in 1983. Logan was one of the greatest Indian friends the white man ever had on the American frontier; and he was the only Indian buried with full United States military honors.Born Spemica Lawba in the Ohio Country in 1774, he was captured at the age of twelve by General Benjamin Logan but later returned to his tribe. Despite great admiration for Tecumseh, his uncle, Johnny Logan realized he loved his adoptive family and their culture even more.The advent of the War of 1812 forced Johnny to make a wrenching decision: remain loyal to his tribe and his heritage, or serve the adopted culture that had become truly his own. With great misgivings, Johnny Logan became a spy against the British and his fellow Indians.Allan Eckert provides colorful details of Johnny Logan's amazing life, his harrowing adventures and impossible choices. All of the incidents, customs, and people are true and re-create the moving story of this heroic Shawnee spy. Blue Jacket's popularity inspired Allan Eckert to write Johnny Logan, the true story of a Shawnee who became a U.S. spy, and it was first published in 1983. Logan was one of the greatest Indian friends the white man ever had on the American frontier; and he was the only Indian buried with full United States military honors.Born Spemica Lawba in the Ohio Country in 1774, he was captured at the age of twelve by General Benjamin Logan but later returned to his tribe. Despite great admiration for Tecumseh, his uncle, Johnny Logan realized he loved his adoptive family and their culture even more.The advent of the War of 1812 forced Johnny to make a wrenching decision: remain loyal to his tribe and his heritage, or serve the adopted culture that had become truly his own. With great misgivings, Johnny Logan became a spy against the British and his fellow Indians.Allan Eckert provides colorful details of Johnny Logan's amazing life, his harrowing adventures and impossible choices. All of the incidents, customs, and people are true and re-create the moving story of this heroic Shawnee spy. Allan W. Eckert is an historian, naturalist, novelist, poet, screenwriter and playwright. The author of thirty-nine published books, he has been nominated on seven separate occasions for the Pulitzer Prize in literature and, in 1985, was recipient of an honorary degree as Doctor of Humane Letters from Bowling Green State University in Ohio. In 1998 he received his second honorary doctorate, also in Humane Letters, from Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. In addition to his books, he has written and had published over 150 articles, essays, and short stories, as well as considerable poetry, a major outdoor drama, and screenplays for several movies.Most noted for his historical and natural history books, Dr. Eckert's works have been translated into thirteen foreign languages around the world. A number of his books have been selections of Reader's Digest Condensed Books and several have been major book club selections. The seven of his books that have been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in literature include A Time of Terror: The Great Dayton Flood (history), Wild Season (fiction), The Silent Sky (fiction), The Frontiersmen (history), Wilderness Empire (history), The Conquerors (history), and A Sorrow in Our Heart: The Life of Tecumseh (biography).Dr. Eckert's varied writing includes over 225 television shows which he wrote for the renowned Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom series and for this writing he received, in 1970, an Emmy Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in the category of outstanding program achievement. He is playwright of the acclaimed outdoor drama entitled Tecumseh! which, in 1997, celebrated its 25th year of production at the multi-million-dollar Sugarloaf Mountain Amphitheater near Chillicothe, Ohio, and which has been described as the finest outdoor theater production in America. Over that quarter-century, the production has been attended by more than two million people. For this drama and his other writings, he received from the Scioto Society, in 1987 the Second Annual Silver Arrow Humanitarian Award "for his contributions to the human spirit and knowledge as an author, novelist, playwright, naturalist and historian." Dr. Eckert's best known historical narrative, The Frontiersmen, from which he adapted his drama, Tecumseh!, won him the Ohioana Library Association Book-of-the-Year Award in 1968. In that same year, the Chicago-based national literary society, The Friends of American Writers, presented him with its highest award of the year for The Frontiersmen and Wild Season -- the first time in that organization's forty-year history of awarding literary prizes that it could not decide between two books by the same author and therefore awarded him first prize for both. He also received, for his book Incide