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The River People: Book Three in the Bompeau Family Saga
by Brien Brown
398 pages
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The River People grant protection to six travelers who are expected to be part of village life. The men hunt and walk the war path. The women make wampum and deal with anger directed at all Whites. They all change in ways no one expected.
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Category: Fiction:Historical:Colonial America
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About the Book
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The early 18th century was a time of turmoil and change in America. England and France fought each other to establish American colonies and formed alliances with the great competing Iroquois and Algonquin confederations. European colonists staked claims to native lands. Native people resisted those claims. European diseases and technology changed the continent in ways few understood. Native American tribes engaged in near-constant conflict no one knew how to stop.
In this environment, the River People risked war with their ancient enemies, the Mingos, by granting protection to six travelers, Tamaqua, a Lenape warrior and his blood brother John, Tamaqua’s son, Boy, John’s wife Abigail, their two-year-old son, Benny and fourteen-year-old Tilly. In exchange for this protection, they expected the travelers to participate in village life.
John felt pressured to go on the winter-long beaver hunt, that had become the new core of the village economy.
Abigail and Tilly tried to settle into village life, making wampum and coping with Native anger toward Whites.
Tamaqua concentrated on recovering from his wounds.
Then, on the same night that children in the village became ill with Dutch Fever, Tamaqua’s Manitou appeared to him in a dream, telling him Abigail had knowledge that could save many lives.
The problem was, Abigail had no idea what she knew.
Meanwhile, people were dying.
One thing is sure, the long, hard winter would change them all in ways no one expected.
The River People, Book Three in the Bompeau Family Saga is the sequel to The Fourth Son, and Abigail’s Tale.
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The Fourth Son
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In 1691, a privileged French noble is forced to go to America. Jean-Marc is taken prisoner, sold into servitude, becomes a brewer, and falls in love with Abigail. They escape into the wilderness after he kills their master defending her and survive with the help of a Lenape warrior.
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Abigail’s Tale: Book Two in the Bompeau Family Saga
by
Brien Brown
In 1702, Abigail loses both husband and home in a fire. Struggling to raise her infant son, she takes in Tilly a twelve-year-old orphan. They leave their cabin in West Jersey to help a young slave boy escape to freedom in New France. They can expect help from Tamaqua, a Lenape warrior, if they manage to make their way to the Hudson River.
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| About the Author |
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Brien Brown is retired from a career teaching history and geography on the secondary and collegiate levels and from coaching wrestling. His hobbies include gardening and martial arts. A Taekwondo master instructor, he lives in Connecticut with his wife, Terry, and their German Shepherds, Cayenne and Ruger. |
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