Book
Review of THE BORDER COVENANT
WESTERN
WRITERS OF AMERICA JUNE ROUNDUP NEWS
HUGH
C. GRIFFITH. WESTERN
WRITERS OF AMERICA WEBSITE
THE
BORDER Covenant.
Tate Publishing. Trade Paperback,
258
pps., $19.99. ISBN 978-1-
61739-114-9.
At
age four, Tom Evans survived a1760s Indian raid as the Abenaki, Satanis,
swept down on colonists spreading west toward Fort Massachusetts .
Taken in by his uncle, John Evans, the boy soon learns the way of the
forest.
At fourteen, he is considered a man and becomes a scout for Major Robert
Roger’s rangers as they attempt to take Quebec from the French.
This story takes place in one of my favorite periods of American history
and so, although at times the story comes across as less of a novel and
more
of a history study, I couldn’t help but be drawn along the frozen
trails of the
Northeast.
The book contains short biographies of well-known historical characters,
terms of battle, a timeline of the French-Indian war, and a copy of
Rogers ’
Rules of Ranging, 1759, which in itself makes the book worth reading.