Remembered for his service during the American Revolution, the American Indian Wars, and the War of 1812, he is also famous for surviving torture by members of the Shawnee tribe and subsequently earning Shawnee respect and honorary tribal membership. In his teens, he was involved in a brutal, romantic jealousy-driven fight with another young man and left the scene of the crime fearing that he had killed his rival. Before discovering that the man he had fought with had, in fact, lived, Kenton adopted an alias and lived in sparsely populated areas of Kentucky, West Virginia, and Ohio.
