Alfred Silver, Author Ballantine Books $9.95 (406p) ISBN 978-0-345-35600-0
Pungent characterizations and settings distinguish Silver's ( Red River Story ) engrossing fictionalized account of rebellion in Canada. When Gabriel and Madelaine Dumont settle along the Saskatchewan, no land office exists to register their claims.
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Alfred Silver, Author Ballantine Books $10 (0p) ISBN 978-0-345-36734-1
The author of Red River Story here chronicles the exploits of Cuthbert Grant, chief of the metis, the half-Indians who populate western Canada. Beginning five years after the Seven Oaks massacre in which Grant played the lead role, the novel details
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Alfred Silver, Author Ballantine Books $6.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-345-37268-0
Described in one source quoted in the author's note as ``the most powerful member of her sex during the Revolutionary period,'' Native American Molly Brant, a member of New York's Canienga tribe, married a wealthy Irish settler and became an...
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Alfred Silver, Author Ballantine Books $5.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-345-37950-4
""If piecing together a story out of history is like puzzling out the doings of nocturnal creatures by the tracks left to the morning, the civil war that founded Acadia is a few smudgy pawprints in melted snow,"" writes Silver in the author's note...
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