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Leatherstocking tales volume 1
Language
English
Description
Natty Bumppo , one of the greatest heroes in American literature, is the rugged frontiersman of James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales, a series of five novels that includes The Last of the Mohicans and The Deerslayer. Although it was the final volume to be written, The Deerslayer is the first in the chronology of Natty Bumppo's life, depicting the character as a young man testing himself in the wilderness and against enemies for the first...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Caught between the warring French and English on Canada's rugged shores in 1755, Sylvie Galant is forced from her Acadian home and family and is alone in colonial Virginia. Now the enemy soldier who once tore her world apart might be the key to restoring her shattered past"--
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
In this vivid and compelling narrative, the Seven Years' War-long seen as a mere backdrop to the American Revolution-takes on a whole new significance. Relating the history of the war as it developed, Anderson shows how the complex array of forces brought into conflict helped both to create Britain's empire and to sow the seeds of its eventual dissolution. Beginning with a skirmish in the Pennsylvania backcountry involving an inexperienced George...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
[1985]
Language
English
Description
A historical novel based on an actual narrative. In 1754, on the brink of the French and Indian war, young Miriam Willard and her older sister's family are captured in an Indian raid on Charleston, N.H., where they are held for ransom.
Author
Series
Johns Hopkins University. Studies in historical and political science volume ser. 43, no. 2
Publisher
Johns Hopkins Press
Pub. Date
1925.
Language
English
17) The official records of Robert Dinwiddie, Lieutenant-governor of the Colony of Virginia, 1751-1758
Author
Series
Publisher
The Society
Pub. Date
1883-84.
Language
English
Author
Series
Historic highways of America volume 3
Publisher
The A. H. Clark Company
Pub. Date
1903.
Language
English
19) Bellewether
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Language
English
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It's 1759 and the world is at war, pulling the North American colonies of Britain and France into the conflict. When captured French officers are brought to Long Island to be billeted in private homes, it upends the lives of the Wilde family. Lydia Wilde, struggling to keep the peace in her fracturing family following her mother's death, has little time or kindness to spare for her unwanted guests. And Canadian lieutenant Jean-Philippe de Sabran has...
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