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Author: Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association (Deerfield, Mass.)
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Category : Deerfield (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 162
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Author: Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association (Deerfield, Mass.)
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Category : Deerfield (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 162
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Author: Christine M. Delucia
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300201176
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 496
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A powerful study of King Philip's War and its enduring effects on histories, memories, and places in Native New England from 1675 to the present
Author: James L. Swanson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501108166
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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"Once it was one of the most famous events in early American history. Today, it has been nearly forgotten. In an obscure, two-hundred-year-old museum in a little village in western Massachusetts, there lies what once was the most revered but now totally forgotten relic from the history of early New England-the massive, tomahawk-scarred door that came to symbolize the notorious Deerfield Massacre. This impregnable barricade-known to early Americans as "The Old Indian Door"-constructed from double-thick planks of Massachusetts oak and studded with hand-wrought iron nails to repel the flailing tomahawk blades of several attacking native tribes, is the sole surviving artifact from the most dramatic moment in colonial American history: Leap Year, February 29, 1704, a cold, snowy night when hundreds of native Americans and their French allies swept down upon an isolated frontier outpost and ruthlessly slaughtered its inhabitants. The sacking of Deerfield led to one of the greatest sagas of adventure, survival, sacrifice, family, honor, and faith ever told in North America. 112 survivors, including their fearless minister, the Reverand John Williams, were captured and led on a 300-mile forced march north, into enemy territory in Canada. Any captive who faltered or became too weak to continue the journey-including Williams's own wife and one of his children-fell under the knife or tomahawk. Survivors of the march willed themselves to live and endured captivity. Ransomed by the King of England's royal governor of Massachusetts, the captives later returned home to Deerfield, rebuilt their town and, for the rest of their lives, told the incredible tale. The memoir of Rev. Williams, The Redeemed Captive, became the first bestselling book in American history and published a few years after his liberation, it remains a literary classic. The old Indian door is a touchstone that conjures up one of the most dramatic and inspiring stories of colonial America-and now, finally, this legendary event is brought to vivid life by popular historian James Swanson"--
Author: Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association
Publisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9780469417403
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 154
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Author: Dean A. Fales
Publisher: New York : E.P. Dutton
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 350
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Author: Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum. Libraries
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 520
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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Author: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Library
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Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 608
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Author: Library of Congress
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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