SAVAGE: A Story of Hollywood

In a city known for its stupefying abundance of extravagant architecture and overwhelming allure, this was the most highly publicized event in its history. Las Vegas had never before seen anything like it. Even the year-round residents, who were expected to be immune to the plastic and neon temptations, found themselves waiting with breathless anticipation for the official opening of the latest undertaking of Savage Enterprises; not unlike an anxious child longing for Christmas morning. Publications the likes of Newsweek, Time and Life would later compare it to Cleopatra's entry into Rome. They were referring, of course, to the spectacular Baptism of the ten billion dollar desert oasis appropriately named "Tecumseh" by its creator.

Savage believed himself to be a descendant of legendary Shawnee tribal chief, Tecumseh, the greatest warrior and leader of all United Indian Nations. Savage, himself, was born into the Shawnee Nation not in dignity, but as the unwanted result of his mother's gang rape by transients at age fourteen. From the moment of birth, his was not to be an easy life.

According to tradition, the tribal elders taught all young males the living history of Tecumseh, causing Savage to take him at an early age as his personal hero. While others his age turned to Superman and Batman comics, Savage learned all he could about his great ancestor. Though not proven, many believed Savage to have the blood of Tecumseh flowing in his veins because of his angry entry into the world with fists clenched as though ready for battle and a howling scream of fury. His birth name, Chiksika, gradually changed to Savage as he grew amongst his tribe and displayed a streak of rebelliousness and wildness that none could tame. He was feared by many elders who recognized the spirit of the Master of Life within this brilliant, alarmingly determined youth. As he grew to adolescence, Savage's facial and body features both intrigued and confounded those around him, for his features became sharp and chiseled, lacking the normal rounded cheeks and broad noses of others his age. A relentless energy caused Savage to run for miles on end and take part in all games of sport. He became well-muscled and leaner than any of his counterparts and his overall look took the breath away from someone encountering his presence for the first time. He became an extraordinary creature which family members both envied and admired, for they knew and he knew that the Master of Life had designed him for unthinkably great things.

It was fitting, then, that Savage chose to name his greatest achievement to date after his forefather and to ask the immortal spirit of his ancestor to come and live and take spiritual charge of the great desert lands now known as Tecumseh.

Four years in construction, it was hailed as the broadest expanse of all Hotel Resorts in the world and most eco-friendly as well. Tecumseh had been designed to be a self-contained city which would serve as a modern marvel of technology and engineering married to the most sophisticated, as well as experimental, ecological triumphs of its time. It produced its own, non-polluting solar energy and recycled three hundred million gallons of water per hour. Aside from that, the entire structure had been modeled after the latest Biosphere in Arizona with the help and blessings of the original architects and planners.

The goal of Savage Enterprises, simply put, was to educate the American Public, along with the rest of the planet, that a commercial undertaking of such magnitude could sustain itself within its own environment without such amenities as air conditioning, outside ventilation, gasoline powered vehicles, and a multitude of electronic gadgets equated with that period of time.

The entire concept of his crowning achievement was for Savage to teach those in modern civilization what his American Indian ancestors had practiced for hundreds of years before the advent of the white man's coming -- to take of the land only what one needed and to preserve the rest for the coming generations. To this end, his inspiration had attracted not only the rich, powerful, and famous, but a literal roster of scientific genius to study in detail this new, modern marvel of engineering and how its secrets might be applied to everyday life in general.

As planned, Tecumseh would also become home and host to the rich, the powerful, and the famous. It afforded a myriad of amenities, not the least of which included an airstrip and separate hangers for private jets just at the outer circle of the stupefying, man-made, environmentally self-reliant city.

Tecumseh boasted a plenitude of luxury apartment suites of staggering size and luxury, each complete with its own servant staff and chauffeurs in attendance for the complimentary, non-gasoline powered Rolls Royce's to power the occupant over the vast, luxuriant acreage designed to house every indigenous form of wild life; some on the endangered species list.

The owner of this two hundred thousand acre empire was known to the world as the greatest showman and successful businessman of all time. His name was Savage. He was adored by millions. He was feared by many. He was loved by one. Her name was Erika.