Showing Calico Captive by Elizabeth George Speare

Paperback. Pub Date: 2001 Pages: 288 Publisher: Sandpiper In The Year 1754 the stillness of Charlestown New Hampshire is Shattered by the terrifying cries of an Indian raid Young Miriam Willard. on a day that had promised new happiness. finds herself instead a captive on a forest trail. caught up in the ebb and flow of the French and Indian War. It is a harrowing march north. Miriam can only force herself to the next stopping place. the next small portion of food . the next icy stream to be crossed. At the end of the trail waits a life of hard work and. perhaps. even a life of slavery. Mingled with her thoughts of Phineas Whitney. her sweetheart on his way to Harvard. is the crying of her sister's baby. Captive. born on the trail. Miriam and her companions finally reach Montreal. a city of shifting loyalties filled with the intrigue of war. and here. by a sudden twist of for...