by Allan Eckert.  832 pages, 6" x 9". From 1755 on, the Ohio River would lead a few intrepid explorers into a land of vast abundance. But it was already the home of the most defiant and skilled warriors of all woodland tribes - the Shawnees. Though treaties were signed and boundaries drawn, the stream of settlers continued and the Indians vowed to defend their land. Thus, the Ohio acquired a new name . . . that dark and bloody river . . . a masterwork of narrative history by an award winning novelist and historian.