Life of Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak, or Black Hawk: An Autobiography

MICHAEL A. LOFARO is professor emeritus of American studies and literature at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He is the author or editor of seventeen books. He is also the general editor of the first five volumes of The Works of James Agee and general editor emeritus for the remaining six. Among his recent frontier publications are an edition of The Life and Adventures [or Sketches and Eccentricities] of Colonel David Crockett, of West Tennessee (2020) and Boone, Black Hawk, and Crockett in 1833: Unsettling the Mythic West (2019).