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Shadows on the Rock Willa Cather - Set in 17th century Canada. A year in the life of a widow and his young daughter and the trappers, missionaries, craftsmen, friends and others who come to their house and shop, it highlights the men and women who struggled to adapt to the "new world" and make a new life for themselves even as they clung to the one they had left behind
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Historian, critic, and horticulturist Francis Parkman was renowned for his analytical acuity and narrative skill. In “A Half Century of Conflict: France and England in North America, Volume 1”, Parkman dissects and explains the tumult that surrounded the birth of the United States. This book is regarded as one of the highest literary achievements in nineteenth-century historical writing.
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Louis de Buade, Comte de Frontenac et de Palluau (1622-1698), was Governor-General of French Canada. In this 1877 installment of his monumental France and England in North America, Parkman documents the man's early life, his rise to power, his arrival in Quebec, and his struggles against the Native Americans and British colonists.
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