Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 1985. dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel based on the history of the author's own family from the 1700s to the present - included in the family was an Indian fighter, his son who was Andrew Johnson's chief negotiator with the warring tribes, two governors of Tennessee and many others. Includes family photographs. ix, 20 pages of photographs, 270 pp. Genealogical family tree illustrated end papers. ISBN: 0-912697245.