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196ANDY THOMAS Tecumseh and the Osage oil36 x 48 inches$65,000–75,000“If Sitting Bull is the most famous American Indian, Tecumseh, the legendary Shawnee chieftain, isthe most revered. In the early years of the nineteenth century he dreamed of welding the diverse North American tribes into a vast confederacy stretching from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, strong enoughto defend the cultures and lands of the Indians from the aggression of the United States...Tecumseh stands out because of his astounding versatility and energy. Not only was his ambition boundless, buthis eloquence made him the voice of the oppressed, his magnetism drew people to him, and he was an inspirational eld commander. More than anything else he was a man of tremendous vitality and sense of purpose. In a word, of passion.”Excerpted from the dust jacket of John Sugden, Tecumseh: A Life (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1997). A copy of this book will accompany the lot.