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The Man With the Silver Eyes by William Owen Steele is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Man With the Silver Eyes about?

Talatu (which means the Cricket in the language of the Cherokee) has spent his young life hating the whites, who have taken his peoples land and driven them deep into the wilderness. He is stunned when his beloved great-uncle tells him he must accompany Shinn, a white man with the palest eyes Talatu has ever seen, the the settlement of Watauga, where he is to spend a year with him. Autumn becomes winter as Talatu continues to despise the white Quaker who attempts to live in peace with his frontier neighbors, and he dreams of joining his warrior uncles in attacks on the white settlers. Set against the backdrop of the raging Revolution and the tensions of frontier living in 1780, William O. Steele has written a memorable story about an encounter between a young Cherokee boy and a white Quaker trader culminating in a confrontation that transforms Talatu from a sullen and suspicious boy into a resolute and courageous man.

Who reads The Man With the Silver Eyes?

Author

William Owen Steele

Publisher

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.

Published

1976

Language

EN

ISBN

9780152517205

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Children'S, Fiction, Historical Fiction

Rating

3.44 / 5 (9 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14