July 11, 2025, Press Release from the Fort Recovery Museum:
FORT RECOVERY, Ohio - Rick Schoenfield, author of The Soldiers Fell Like Autumn Leaves: The Battle of the Wabash, the United States’ Greatest Defeat in the Wars Against Indigenous Peoples”, will be speaking on Sunday July 13 at 1:30 at the Fort Recovery Museum. The presentation is free of charge.
Books will be available for purchase and Schoenfield will sign books after his presentation.
Also available on Sunday July 13 are guided 1-hour battlefield tours at 12:00 and 3:00, with tour guide Kim Rammel, Site Manager. Tours are included with Museum admission.
BIOGRAPHY
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 ChicagoKent 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.
