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Ouabache is the old French spelling of Wabash, the Algonquin word waapaahšiiki, the name the Miami Indians gave to the river that runs through Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. This is a novel about life in the valley during the French Colonial period.
span style="font-size: medium;">Ouabache is the story of a boy and his mother struggling to find their place on the frontier of French Colonial North America. Featuring actual events and characters from history the story follows Charlotte and her son La'Havre from the Mississippi Delta to the Wabash River Valley painting a vivid picture of life among the French and Native people who occupied the land in the eighteenth century. It begins when a pregnant Charlotte is arrested in France and deported to Louisiana where she finds refuge among privateers and gives birth to a son. Charlot | |  | | Pickawillany
In 1752, Pickawillany, the first British trading post west of the Alleghenies became a flashpoint and triggered a war that would determine control of North America.
span style="font-size: medium;">In 1743 the remote French settlements along the Ouabache were prospering in relative peace. Four thousand miles away in Austria a king lay dying, his successor uncertain. England and France were determined to place an ally on his throne. Their North American colonies were dragged into the ensuing conflict along with their native allies. A British blockade cut the French settlements off from the goods they so desperately needed to maintain their relationship with the natives on whom their survival depended. The British used this opportunity to expand | |  | | The Nineteenth Star: Indiana's March to Statehood
A collection of essays that began as a series of feature articles published in the Monticello Indiana Herald Journal newspaper. The purpose of these articles was to provide readers with a basic knowledge of Indiana's pre-statehood history. From the Mound Builders through the French, British, and U.S. Territorial governments, "The Nineteenth Star" presents a brief chronological account of pivotal events and characters in Indiana's early history.
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