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Calico captive / Elizabeth George Speare.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Speare, Elizabeth George.
- Series:
- Laurel-leaf library
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--History--French and Indian War, 1754-1763--Fiction.
- United States.
- History.
- Indians of North America--Fiction.
- Indians of North America.
- United States--History--French and Indian War, 1755-1763--Fiction.
- Montréal (Québec)--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 190 pages ; 18 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Dell Pub. Co., 1975.
- Summary:
- An historical novel based on an actual narrative. In 1754, on the brink of the French and Indian War, young Miriam Willard and her older sister's family are captured in an Indian raid on Charleston, N.H., forced to march through the wilderness, and sold to the French in Montreal, where they are held for ransom.
- Notes:
- Reprinted by arrangement with Houghton Mifflin.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- OCLC:
- 1943312
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