The Old American

Ernest Hebert

Original title: The old American

first published 2000 Dartmouth College Press, 2001 paperback 304 pages

Thorndike Press large print Americana series

"Set in New England and Canada during the French and Indian Wars, The Old American is driven by its complex, vividly imagined title character, Caucus-Meteor. By turns shrewd and embittered, ambitious and despairing, inspired and tormented, he is the self-styled "king" of the remnants of the first native tribes that encountered the English. Displaced and ravaged by disease, these refugees have been forced to bargain f...

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Old American edition · 2012 · Dartmouth College · 9781611683608
The Old American paperback · 2001 · Dartmouth College Press · 304 pages · 9781584652137
The old American edition · 2001 · Thorndike Press · 496 pages
The old American edition · 2000 · University Press of New England · 287 pages

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