DAUNTLESS SON

A.K. Fielding is an independent historian and an artist. She writes about early American topics so that, she says, “I can buy materials with which to paint subjects from that period.” The author of numerous articles on American history, she recently published her first book, Rough Diamond: The Life of Colonel William Stephen Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton’s Forgotten Son (Indiana University Press, 2021).

My book tells the story of America’s Midwestern pioneers and continues the Hamilton saga to the next generation. I found William S. Hamilton to be an exceptional personality with a story screaming to be shared. Here was a man who could