Juniata Valley Author:Virginia C. Cassel With a rare gift for storytelling and a sharp eye for intimate historical detail, Virginia Cassel brings vividly to life the Pennsylvania frontier of the late 1750s, during the bloody French and Indian War. The book is concerned with the fates of five families of settlers, true pioneers, men and women who have literally hacked their homes out of... more » the wilderness. Some are near neighbors, others more isolated, but all are loath to give up their land, even when rumors of Indian raids and massacres reach them. But in the summer months of 1756, in separate incidents, all five families are attacked or threatened by Indian war parties. What happens to the fleeing survivors, and to those whom the Indians take captive, is Virginia Cassel's story.« less