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Allen Jacop Fox, known better as 'Keeper of the Waters' to many white men, as well as to many of the Indian tribes of New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.This is a story of his feelings, his beliefs, his family, and his friends. He was chosen to speak the words of peace to the white settlers, and to the many different Indian tribes on the breek of the French and Indian War.
Waking up, lying upon the rocky shore, with the waves pounding aganist my body, I knew that I had survived, somehow, the terrible shipwreck. I lay there, feeling the cold waves pushing my lower body farther up the jagged shorline. I tried to move my legs, but without success. I could feel the cold, the damn cold, and moving up my body into my chest, and I knew I would die soon.I thought to myself, this is not the way I thoght I would die. I could understand being shot by a roaming Indian, being killed by some foreign soldier, but not lying here, freezing in this cold Atlantic Ocean, surroun | |  | | The Life and Times of Robert Flint the Pioneer
I examine the life of my ancestor, Robert Flint, from his home in Flintshire, Wales to the Mohawk Valley, in upstate New York during the early 1700's. His life, and family during the French and Indian Wars, as well as the American Revoultion.
The year was 1726. The dampness of the early morning fog was beginning to lift off the green meadow; another night in the hills keeping watch over my father's small herd of cattle had passed. The early-May morning sun was starting to break over the eastern hills when I saw my father riding toward me. He was calling my name, "Robert, Robert!" I called back; "What is it father?" As he got off his horse and was catching his breath he said, "Robert. your uncle from Virginia had written to me. He has made arrangements for you to go to America to live wi | |  | | Trail of Broken Chains
Trail of Broken Chains is an exciting story that follows the journey of Robert Flint, the 3rd. and Joshua Wells, two adventurous young men, through the ever-changing American landscape in the years immedediately following the American Revolution. After meeting Lily, the daughter of a wealthy southern gentleman, and Adam, a former slave whom Lily and her father had saved from a vicious landowner. Robert and Joshua's eyes are opened to the struggles of their fellow human beings enslaved on the southern plantations. With a steadfast sense of justice, Robert, Joshua, Lily, and Adam devise a plan to liberate the slaves in the south, and transport them to freedom in the north. They soon learn that the slave trade is a big business down south, and danger lies at every turn in the road. How much are these determined young people willing to risk in order to change the course of American history?
Joshua, Halfmoon, and I trekked through the mud toward the rise of the hill. When we got to the top we looked down. The narrow crossing we had to pass was completely under water.
"Damn it!" Joshua yelled. "I knew this would happen. It'll be at least another day before we can get across that river."
"You sure as hell can say that again." I replied. "it is really pounding through there."
Halfmoon took off down the bank and started downstream, barking like hell. Joshua and I knew something was wrong. We half slid down the muddy road and near the bank of the roaring river. | |  | | Two Brothers, Two Wars, One Valley
Two Brothers, Two Wars, One Valley is the latest novel from David Burton Flint, author of the Life and Times of Robert Flint the Pioneer,Trail of Briken Chains. It tells the story of two courageous brothers, who bound by loyalty to their neighboors and a sense of justice, lead an inexperienced yet determined militia through two historical conflicts to bring freedom to their beloved village in New York's Mohawk Valley. With rich description, extraordinary passion, and extensive historical research, Flint creates an intimate portrait of colonial life at the threshold of the American Revolution, and gives readers insight into the hearts, and souls of the brave men who were willing to scarifice everything in the fight for their independence.
My brother John and I had finally made contact with John Miller, who was taking four new families up the Hudson River from New York. We had paid this man the cost to take us to Albany a month earlier. It was our plan to go overland from Albany up the Mohawk River and then travel to Fort Hunter. We had heard Sir William Johnson was selling land up the Mohawk at a place called Stone Arabia. Many Dutch and German families had already settled in this area. John Miller told us that the land was rich for farming, and further up the Mohawk and Hudson Rivers, even trapping for furs. We |
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The House of Green Waters
by Edward Patterson
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 Fourth Book in the Southern Swallow Series finds the Academician Li K'ai-men in exile on Hai-nan Island. China has a new invasion threat. A showdown between ingenuity and technology explodes as the Sung Dynasty tries to preserve itself. |
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Shanghai Escapist
by Robert Liu
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 Shanghai Escapist grabs the faint-of-heart right from the get-go and serves up an ultimatum: What would you do if caught in the same circumstances? From the opening scene, the reader is tossed into the maze of daily intrigue as it existed in 1960s-70 |
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