The Rulers of the Lakes: A Story of George and Champlain
1917
The Rulers of the Lakes: A Story of George and Champlain
1917
The year is 1755. The wilderness of colonial America runs red with the aftermath of General Braddock's devastating defeat, and the French and their Indian allies hold dominion over the forests and lakes. Into this landscape of death and danger step two unlikely companions: Robert Lennox, a young colonist hardened by loss, and Tayoga, an Onondaga warrior whose people walk between two worlds. When they stumble upon evidence of a planned assault on Fort Refuge, they must traverse hundreds of miles of hostile territory, carrying a warning that could save a garrison but will likely mean their own deaths. Joseph A. Altsheler renders the primeval forest with startling immediacy, its beauty as treacherous as its inhabitants, while the bond between the white boy and the Indian boy becomes the novel's quiet, beating heart. This is adventure fiction at its old-fashioned best: propulsive, morally clear-eyed, and utterly unafraid to let its young heroes face genuine darkness.
