| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 40.1

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Book Review

Mr. Jefferson's Hammer: William Henry Harrison and the Origins of American Indian Policy. By Robert M. Owens. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. xxx + 311 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95.)

Seeking to remind readers that William Henry Harrison was far more than "the hapless president who died after only one month in office," Robert M. Owens, an assistant professor of history at Wichita State University, offers this study of Harrison and his influence along the frontier of the Old Northwest Territory (p. xvi). Mr. Jefferson's Hammer is not a full-scale biography, as it eschews any meaningful study of Harrison's congressional career or his ascension to the presidency. Instead, Owens focuses his lens on Harrison's political and military career from the mid-1790s until 1814, a period that saw Harrison become governor of the Indiana Territory and the primary U. S. general arrayed in opposition to Tecumseh's pan-Indian movement. It was here, Owens convincingly argues, that Harrison had "a profound impact upon the history of the Midwest and laid the groundwork for American expansion into the Far West" (p. xvi).

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