A Man of Distinction Among Them represents an important step in understanding the complexities surrounding the early history of the Ohio Country and the Old Northwest and provides the clearest and most comprehensive portrait of a central figure in that history: Alexander McKee.

McKee was a fur trader, land speculator, and agent with the British Indian Department. Fathered by a white trader and raised partly by his Shawnee mother, McKee was at home in either culture and played an active role in Great Lakes Indian affairs for nearly 10 years. During the Revolution he remained loyal to the Crown and organized the Ohio tribes to oppose American military excursions into the Ohio Country, and he led several successful raids into Kentucky.

Larry L. Nelson
ISBN 0-87338-700-7
Soft cover