Originally stories for family members, The Allards series has been critically acclaimed and is now widely read. It promises to become for French-Canadian-Americans what Roots was for African-Americans. The fifth in this series of eight historical novels tracing the lives of the Allard family, The City in the Wilderness, follows the fifth generation in the New World. As before, the author brings these people and their history to life, showing history through their eyes. Jacques Allard and his son travel to the sea with Lewis and Clark returning to find Detroit in ruins after the fire of 1805....
Originally stories for family members, The Allards series has been critically acclaimed and is now widely read. It promises to become for French-Canad...
In 1833 Therese Allard is twenty-seven years old. Recently widowed, she lives with eight children on her late husband's farm. Following the second brutal cholera epidemic in three years, her outspoken mother sends Sean Logan, a rich Irish abolitionist, to turn Therese's farm into a station on Detroit's growing Underground Railroad and to turn Therese's sad life into one of adventure and romance. In this period of significant regional growth during the conflict between proslavery forces of the south and the abolitionist sympathies of Detroit, a group of French-Swiss families leave their homes...
In 1833 Therese Allard is twenty-seven years old. Recently widowed, she lives with eight children on her late husband's farm. Following the second bru...
In 1861, Moise and Marie-Anne Allard have not yet recovered from the difficult birth of their first son when Marie-Anne's brother, her cousin and an old friend join thousands of young Detroiters marching off to war, returning four years later as Detroit enters the industrial age. The Allards are guided by their unforgettable great-grandmother, Mimi Balard, while being threatened by their old nemesis, Fillmore P. Shakley, a slave catcher turned carpetbagger, when he returns to Detroit for revenge. As a young adult, their son, Moses Allard, leaves the farm for marriage and city life but...
In 1861, Moise and Marie-Anne Allard have not yet recovered from the difficult birth of their first son when Marie-Anne's brother, her cousin and an o...
At the turn of the 20th Century, Moses Allard's first born son, Diddy, dies, but not before leaving a lifelong impression on his young brother, Abe, who grows up preferring fishing, duck hunting and ice boats to the family farm. Marrying Julia Forton from another early French farming family, Abe joins the police at the onset of WWI where he cuts his teeth on the early days of Prohibition and Detroit's famous Purple Gang. Abe's only child, Gladys, is raised by a father who desperately longs for a son in the lakeside farming community as it enters the age of suburbia. Marrying and starting her...
At the turn of the 20th Century, Moses Allard's first born son, Diddy, dies, but not before leaving a lifelong impression on his young brother, Abe, w...
THE BEAVER WARS The Beaver Wars relates both to the tumultuous period in early French-Canadian history and the wars between Native tribes. During the last half of the 17th century, Iroquois tribes to the south battled Huron tribes to the west over control of the lucrative fur trade which reached into many other tribes and European colonies. Eight years have passed since families from Perche, France left their homes to join Samuel Champlain in his efforts to reclaim French Canada. As early residents of this wilderness, Francoise and Noel Langlois prospered. When the story opens, however,...
THE BEAVER WARS The Beaver Wars relates both to the tumultuous period in early French-Canadian history and the wars between Native tribes. During the ...
