Description by E. I. Smith - Tom Quick, the Indian Slayer – First Edition Book: by James Eldridge Quinlan – 1851

Similarly to the settler vs. Indian frontier war books, [Tom Quick the Indian Slayer (1851)] [Speaking Rifle the Indian Slayer (1865)] [Pemmican (1956)] [Scalp King, or the Human Thunderbolt (1868)] etc…, the life of Tom Quick the Indian Slayer is a book that chronicles the life of a frontiersman who chose the war path with respect to the extermination of the Indians that inhabited the area known as the United States of America. Indian killers lived bloody lives and lived by the creed of “kill or be killed.” Some of these men collected the bloody scalps of their Indian victims and either kept them as trophies, hung them up as decorations, or sold them to a governmental organization or private institution in exchange for cash. Men, women, and children were slaughtered on both sides, Indian and settler, and the golden prize of all of the bloodshed and horror was the vast, fertile, and scenic land known as the New World, or America.