Sher and I always enjoyed discovering interesting attractions when we were travelling. We found this striking likeness of the famous Chief Tecumseh near the Wabash River levee in Vincennes, Indiana. The statue is the creation of Peter “Wolf” Toth, a Hungarian artist, and is his most recent addition (the 74th) to his “The Trail of Whispering Giants” series of statues scattered across the country.
Chief Tecumseh, Wabash River levee in background
The history of the Chief
Signage and Tecumseh
Toth’s first monumental “Whispering Giant” was completed in 1972. He now has statues in all 50 states. His only tools were a hammer and chisel, with rare use of an ax and a mallet. Each statue is made using a native log from each state. Toth always meets with local Native American tribes and local lawmakers prior to beginning his work. While on your road trips keep an eye out for the magnificent “Trail of the Whispering Giants”.
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It’s a wonderful sculpture, I didn’t know there are 50 of them. Nice! Vincennes reminds me of the fire engines my dad owned, beautiful antiques. I wonder if the small engines called Tecumseh are named after the Chief? 🤔
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Got this from one of those AI things: “Tecumseh engines were named after the Tecumseh Products Company, which got its name because its main manufacturing plant was located in Tecumseh, Michigan. The town and city of Tecumseh, in turn, were named in honor of the famous Shawnee Chief Tecumseh.”
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Oh, okay thanks! I forgot that there is a Michigan town with the name. I used them on minibikes when I was a kid, they just ran differently than the Briggs and Stratton engines. We had sooo much fun trying different engines, even small displacement two-cycle engines.
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