The Incredible William Bowles: The True Story of One of the Wildest Figures in American History

William Augustus Bowles -- a British Loyalist during, and for a quarter century after, the American Revolutionary War. Part soldier, part dreamer, and part adventurer, he went from service in the British Army to joining the Muskogee Peoples, rising to be a respected war chief among the Native Americans. He waged war on the Spanish and fought to create a Native American state.

His story embodies the idea of the individual hero: Bowles is resourceful, far-seeing, and selfless, always fighting...