The Queen's Stallion: DeSoto, Horses, and Indians

ISBN-13: 9781468021066 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 272 str.

Isabel Vandervelde

Opis

subtitle: DeSoto, Horses, and Indians This is a historical novel mostly about the various Indian tribes killed, moved, and disturbed by the entry of whites to the continent. At Cofitachequi, the Queen or her daughter The Princess, lead the people and meet the Spaniards who want to conquer them, enslave them, and take their wealth. One of them falls in love with the Princess, and steals abreeding herd of horses including DeSotos own favorite stallion and a half-dozen mares. The story goes on into time, showing the great changes taking place in the lives of the natives. It progresses through the slave uprising at Stono, and then into the uses of wild horses from DeSoto's herd, by The Swamp Fox, Francis Marion in the Revolutionary War.

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