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Smith, E Russell, W.H.Bartlett

The raft of the skedaddlers

Baico Publishing, 2004

27,50 €

Kalamos Books

(STREETSVILLE, Canadá)

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Año de publicación
2004
ISBN
1894494857
Lugar de impresión
Gatineau, Quebec
Autor
Smith, E Russell
Editores
Baico Publishing
Edición
1st Canadian Edition.
Materia
HISTORICAL FICTION CANADA OTTAWA QUEBEC
Ilustrador
W.H.Bartlett
Descripción
S
Descripción
Inscribed by Author(s)
Sobrecubierta
No
Conservación
Excelente
Encuadernación
Tapa blanda
Copia autógrafa
Primera edición

Descripción

Before he settled in Gloucester Township, on land that is now part of Ottawa Braddish Billings traded in timber along the Rideau and Ottawa rivers. In 1810 he and a crew of other ex-patriot American "skedaddlers" took a raft of white oak barrel staves from the Rideau front to Quebec City=-a venture which proved to be disastrous. Included in his crew was his nephew Elkanah Stowell the narrator of this tale fifty years later.a chronicle of adventure and romance on the Canadian frontier. 161p.map.illus. Signed on title page.