Second Printing 1967
Copyright 1959 by
ALBERT WHITMAN & COMPANY
L. C. Card 59-9656

Published simultaneously in the Dominion of Canada by George J. McLeod, Limited, Toronto. Printed in
the U.S.A.

Dedication
To Alan’s three little queens;
Elizabeth,
Leslie,
Sarah.

Permission is gratefully acknowledged for the useof material from “George Rogers Clark Papers” inVol. 8 of the Collections of the Illinois State HistoricalLibrary, edited by James Alton James, copyright1912.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

I. A Strange Guest 7

II. Was It a Trick? 25

III. An Exchange at the Salt Lick 42

IV. Winter with the Potawatomis 57

V. The Long Knives 74

VI. On to Kaskaskia 94

VII. No Adoption 108

VIII. A Peaceful Interval 120

IX. Through the Drowned Lands 137

X. Capture of Vincennes 155

Chapter I
A STRANGE GUEST

Thirteen-year-old Jim Hudson thumped a melon withpracticed fingers, then pulled it from the vine and laid itin a pile with the others. He wiped his hot forehead withhis sweaty shirtsleeve, turning with a smile toward hismother. “Look, Ma!” he called, “See how many melonswe have. And how fine the turnips and corn look.”

Ma Hudson, her rifle across her knees, was sitting on alarge stump in the little c

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