Yonaguska

Yonaguska is represented in the linked historical fiction through social change and the pressures of ordinary life and political ambition and government. These works approach the figure through the surrounding events, relationships and political conflicts rather than through a standalone biography.

In Charles Frazier’s Thirteen Moons, the novel’s central figures are fictional, but Will and Bear are loosely shaped by William Holland Thomas and the Cherokee leader Yonaguska.