Massacre on the Merrimack : Hannah Duston's Captivity and Revenge in Colonial America (Hardcover)

from froxgirl

Here's a history familiar to many in Eastern Massachusetts: as Puritan families came over to the new world, many settled in isolated wilderness areas because land was cheaper than in the settlement towns. In 1697, the French and English were still fiercely competing for territory, and members of ...

from m.belljackson

Equally terrifying and enlightening, the MASSACRE of 1697 is not bedtime reading. Jay Atkinson has a compelling range, from tender landscapes and settings so vivid that readers may actually hear the war party crawling toward the Duston home. As well, he creates a near unbearable tension as Hann...

from m.belljackson

Equally terrifying and enlightening, the MASSACRE of 1697 is not bedtime reading. Jay Atkinson has a compelling range, from tender landscapes and settings so vivid that readers may actually hear the war party crawling toward the Duston home. As well, he creates a near unbearable tension as Hann...