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Durant wrote Heroes of History more for the layman than the scholar. Historical facts were interspersed with the author's opinions and reflections. "This book is likely to find a wide audience among those looking for an introduction to world history", says John Little of Publishers Weekly, "but the absence of a bibliography and source notes may denote to scholars a certain lack of rigor."
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He was born as Bob Benge about 1762 in the Overhill Cherokee town of Toqua, to a Cherokee woman and a Scots-Irish trader named John Benge, who lived full-time among the Cherokee and had taken a "country wife." They also had a daughter Lucy. Benge stood out physically because of his red hair.
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He was the son of Chief Bloody Fellow (Talotisky, known also as Aaron Price) and Betsy Watts (Wurteh), who was the mother of Chief John Jolly (Due), Chief Bob Benge (known as "the Bench"), and George Gist (Sequoyah). [1] Tahlonteeskee was the older brother (or possibly a half-brother) of John Jolly.
A culture hero is a mythological hero specific to a group of people (cultural, ethnic, religious, etc.), who changes the world through invention or discovery.A typical culture hero might be credited as the discoverer of fire or agriculture, songs, tradition, law or religion, and is usually one of the most important legendary figures of a people, sometimes as the founder of its ruling dynasty.