Crawford's Defeat: A Frontier Story in 1812, a gripping novel written by a team of authors from the Fort Wayne Public Library and Allen County, tells the story of a mysterious and tense era when the United States first faced the challenges of frontier warfare. In this book you will find exciting events, intense battles and skillfully written characters of mysterious characters. "Crawford's Defeat" is an exciting chronicle of events and courage that will take you to the very heart of American history and open new horizons of knowledge about what life was like in the Wild West in the 19th century.