Bibliograph

The old American, a novel, by Ernest Hebert

Type

Label

The old American, a novel, by Ernest Hebert

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The old American

Oclc number

26841143569197

Responsibility statement

by Ernest Hebert

Series statement

Hardscrabble books

Sub title

a novel

Summary

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

Table Of Contents

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

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