Presentation by Author Rick Schoenfield, free of charge

Author of "The Soldiers Fell Like Autumn Leaves: The Battle of the Wabash, the United States' Greatest Defeat in the Wars Against Indigenous Peoples". Presentation free of charge, at the Fort Recovery Museum.

Rick M. Schoenfield earned a BA and a JD from Northwestern University. He has been a trial and appellate lawyer for over 40 years. A highlight of Rick’s legal career was taking a case pro bono, after it was lost in the federal court of appeals, getting the case to the Supreme Court and winning unanimously. Rick taught negotiations at Chicago-Kent College of Law and co-authored The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Negotiating Course and Legal Negotiations: Getting Maximum Results. Native American history, early American history and military history have been of particular interest to Rick throughout his life. Many of the skills he acquired in his legal career were equally useful in researching and writing The Soldiers Fell Like Autumn Leaves. Rick was honored to be a “Special Guest” at the 2025 Culture Event of the Sac River and White River Bands of the Cherokee Nation of Indians of Arkansas and Missouri.

You may also like the following events from Fort Recovery State Museum and Fort Recovery Historical Society:

• This Sunday, 13th July, 12:00 pm, Guided Battlefield Tour (1 hour), included with Museum admission in Fort Recovery
• This Sunday, 13th July, 03:00 pm, Guided Battlefield Tour (1 hour), included with Museum admission in Fort Recovery
• Next Saturday, 19th July, 08:30 am, St. Clair 5K Run/Walk in Fort Recovery

Also check out other Arts events in Fort Recovery, Literary Art events in Fort Recovery, Workshops in Fort Recovery.