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The Boyle Chronicles: Book One - James & Sarah

by Ron Baldwin

210 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #04-2217; ISBN 1-4120-4409-x; US$19.95, C$25.00, EUR16.25, £11.26

Romance and intrigue on the upper Susquehanna, as the New York wilderness is settled by former soldiers of the Clinton - Sullivan Expedition to suppress the Iroquois.

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About the Book

Historically based as it follows the Clinton - Sullivan expedition through the hostile wilderness of early New York State. With a pioneer couple fresh from 'civilized' Massachusetts the story unfolds as they settle in the frontier wilderness of 1780. Their trials and heartaches are laid out so realistically that the reader will feel they are working and sustaining the tribulations as well. Designed to bring everyday life of the earliest frontier to life. From the massacre at Cherry Valley to the settlement of Cooperstown this story lays out what early settlers were up against as they cleared the land, loved each other and raised children in a hostile environment.

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About the Author

The author is a former Marine (10 years) and a former salesman (par-excellence). He is a conservative patriot who loves this country and wants all to appreciate what it has taken to get it to where we are today.

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Excerpts

Wanting to reassure him and buck up her own confidence and to relieve some of her pent up emotions she pens a letter to James. "Thankful for your correspondence, it helps to know that you are keeping well. Each day I enter my thoughts and doings in my diary. I have sewn many things mother says I will have to have with me. Looks like I will fill a sizeable wagon. Mother has divided much of her pots and pans for us. She insists that we leave with large stores of preserves and such. Father has hinted at having his own ideas of essentials. I am so very apprehensive about the Indian troubles. Do you think that you and I will have to deal with them? Hope that you can return before Winter. Do not think I want to spend another Holiday Season without you, or another day if I could avoid it! Love and devotion always, Sarah".

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Eating a hearty breakfast, James, silently thanking his choice of putting the cabin so far up the mountain to protect them from Indians, realizes he has now saved them from certain disaster. He has no doubt mayhem has been visited upon any who has chosen to build too near the river. Planning on look in on the animals, he tells Sarah that he will then check on the boat before hiking up river to check on those across from McVean*s mill. He should be back by early afternoon. Turning to the children, he reminds them to help their mother and gets a hug from each in return.

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