Connections

Everyone on this river is joined to everyone else. Here is how.

Mary Wolcott is three steps from Tecumseh: granddaughter of Little Turtle, who signed the treaty at Greenville, which Tecumseh refused to sign.

The graph is hand-built alongside the manuscript: eighty-three people, nations, places and events, and the hundred-odd relations between them. It holds only what the book can support — a kinship, a command, a signature on a treaty, a death on a particular piece of ground. Where the record disagrees with itself, the disagreement is kept in the research store rather than smoothed over here.