The books in this section are usually hardcover and in decent shape, though we'll sometimes offer hard-to-find books in lesser condition at a reduced price. Though we often put images of the book with their original dust jackets, the copies here won't always (or even often) have them. If that is important to you, please call ahead or say so in the order comments!
From the dust jacket:
Dygartsbush, New York, in the year 1778 – smoke rising from lonely cabins, but not the fragrant smoke of cookfires, welcoming the men home from clearing, forest and trail. It was the bitter smoke of charred logs, smoldering in heaps which that morning had been the homes of the settlers - perhaps also the unspeakable smoke of burning flesh, for more than one husband perished in the flames after his scalp was safely tucked in a raider's belt.
Few men were taken as captives – the women and older children plodded the long trail back to the villages of the Senecas. This is their story, told by the author of DRUMS ALONG THE MOHAWK. It is a story out of New York State History, in which the tales of Walter Edmonds are always steeped. It is a story of Indians – real Indians who vary as all human beings – Indians who are impersonally cruel, simple and friendly, wise, brutal, sly, kind, proud, self-effacing, laughter-loving. It is a story of a woman's steadfastness in the face not only of mortal danger but of the loss of all that had given her pride and confidence in living.
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