Traitor: The Life and Assassination of John Dunn Hunter, American Radical

The story of John Dunn Hunter's remarkable life, tragic betrayal, and disgraceful murder.

John Dunn Hunter was many things: a frontier hero, a writer, a celebrity at home and abroad, and, ultimately, the victim of a deadly conspiracy. Born to white parents in 1800, he was captured as a young child by the Kickapoo and later raised by the Kansa and then the Osage. As a young man, he left his Osage family and crossed the Mississippi into the United States, where he became an ardent and persuasi...