Allan A. Leonard
Set against the background of the Swedish Colonization along the Delaware River and near the Algonkin Woods-People Tribes along that river and beyond their mountains – a time when ambitious men and women entered the New World and it’s dangers armed only with Bibles - a Colonial Puritan from Plimouth -in 1650 - attempts to start his life anew as he runs afoul of the English Army, chases a murderer, crosses the Appalachian Mountains to get furs, supplies illegal muskets and flintlocks to the Clans of natives there, becomes involved in a frontier war between the Iroquois and Sioux, locates the woman of his hopes, but finds his life is always the same.
Here hangs a story of a lingering love for a dead wife and the relationships with women a man enjoys while he pursues riches in the fur-trade and battles the People Of The Canoe for furs, and a dedicated killer for his life.
This is a continuation from the book, “Make Not Provision …”
Allan A Leonard is a retired Registered Nurse and Ordained Minister who was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts and lived a quarter-century in the Plymouth, Massachusetts area. His Mother was a D.A.R and he grew up hearing about his Colonial relatives in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
INTRODUCTION: TO THE READER:
A hundred years before the French & Indian War in America's Northeast (those years being 1754-1763) - triggered when New France's Governor-General sent men into The Ohio to remove British settlers and their flags: this touching-off a bloody and selfish war of nine years' duration which involved France, Great Britain, Germany and Hanover, Spain and Portugal and several other associated States in Europe - there were already Tribe-to-Tribe wars among the native populations, and European involvement in them.
Europe wanted furs, and the New World could supply these only if the tribes of native people would assist in their collection or the trapping of them by Europeans.
In the rush to become wealthy from selling furs, French, Dutch and English traders traveled into the great forests and inland waterways of The Ohio (today’s Pennsylvania, Ohio and western New York), supplying the Tribes with the long-guns they needed to kill from a distance: their food, their native enemies, and the Europeans who took their land, their lives, and their loyalties.
This is the story of such a trader for furs who supplied flintlocks and muskets to the Tribes, and his personal reasoning for that illegal trading.
