Wacousta : a tale of the Pontiac conspiracy (Complete)

The narrative reconstructs a frontier crisis after the transfer of colonial territory, depicting a Native confederacy's campaign against isolated British posts and a cunning stratagem staged as a lacrosse game that results in the capture of one fort while another narrowly escapes; amid these events an officer in the commissariat undertakes a hazardous night mission to deliver supplies across lakes and succeeds, a service that alters his family's fortunes. Interwoven are family reminiscences of maritime losses, subsequent land grants and settlement near a place known as the Bloody Run, and the narrator's early upbringing, blending historical episode, personal memoir, and frontier atmosphere.