Walter D. Edmonds delivers one of the greatest fictional accounts on the American Revolution ever created. The characters are real and in depth. You feel their struggle through Edmond's words and get a better understanding of the problems that faced the frontier people during this great confrontation. One of my favorite books of all time. I highly recommend it to any one who enjoys literature. ( )

Have read this book three times over my life. One of the first books I ever read. Reread it in college (for fun) and once again about five years ago. Have enjoyed it every single time. Great historical story set in the Utica/Herkimer area of New York during the American Revolution. ( )

closely researched historical novel of the Revolutionary War on the New York frontier—no wonder the settlers hated the Indians

I loved this novel when I read it as a child in the 1950's and I loved it again. True to events of history. ( )