Journeyman newspaperman, editor, essayist, historian, and biographer as well as author of short fiction, William Leete Stone was a Federalist supporter whose role as a political advocate overshadowed the significance of his career as an author and historian of Indians during the American Revolution. In addition to his Maria Monk and the Nunnery of the Hotel Dieu; Being an Account of a Visit to the Convents of Montreal and Refutation of the "Awful Disclosures" (1836), Life of Joseph Brant-Thayendanegea: Including the Border Wars of the American Revolution, and Sketches of the Indian Campaigns of Generals Harmar, St. Clair, and Wayne (1838), and The Life and Times of Red-Jacket, or Sa-go-ye-wat-ha, Being the Sequel to the History of the Six Nations (1841), Stone is best remembered as one of several targets of libel suits filed by America's first great romantic historical novelist, James Fenimore Cooper. From 1821 until just before his death in...