Here is another author and novel that have been relegated into obscurity (again from the later 20th century). It is a historical novel set during the late part of the American Revolution. Loyalists in Natchez must flee the vengeance of the Spanish who hold New Orleans. This is a story of their 500 mile trek though hostile and relatively uncharted wilderness to sanctuary in what is now central Alabama. This novel has it all: romance (on the periphery), survival of an Indian assault, a forest fire, smallpox epidemic, to name the most dominant. For all these trials the party gains safe haven with the loss of only one life: a traitor who is dispatched early in the trek. Read it if you can find a copy.

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