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The old American :

Hebert, Ernest.

The old American : a novel / - Hanover, N.H. : University Press of New England, c2000. - ix, 287 p. ; 22 cm. - Hardscrabble books . - Hardscrabble books. .

Grief -- The Gauntlet -- The Great River -- Conissadawaga -- Slave -- Pure -- Succession -- A House like the English Build -- A Far Place -- Author's Note.

"Set in New England and Canada during the French and Indian Wars; driven by its complex character, Caucus-Meteor. By turns shrewd and embittered, ambitious and despairing, inspired and tormented, he is the self-styled 'king' of the remnants of the first native tribes that encountered the English. Displaced and ravaged by disease, these refugees have been forced to bargain for land in Canada on which to live. Having hired himself out as interpreter to a raiding party of French and Iroquois, Caucus-Meteor returns from New Hampshire the unexpected possessor of a captive, Nathan Blake." -- Jacket.

NHSL Nominee for the Dublin Award, 2002

1584650737 (alk. paper) 9781584650737 (alk. paper)

00008467

GBA2-50522

20010109749


Blake, Nathan, 1712-1811 --Fiction.


Indian captivities--Fiction.
Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.


New England--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Fiction.


Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.

PS3558.E277 / O44 2000

813/.54