Wah-say-lan
Subtitle: a tale of the Iroquois in the American Revolution
By: James Herbert Smith
Publisher: Plaidswede Publishing
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Concord, N.H
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9780984065028
Subjects: Historical fiction; Romance fiction; Iroquoian Indians; Fiction; Slaves; History
Description: She is a Senecan, a unique, courageous and adventurous woman. He is a slave, a Continental solider fighting for his freedom. In their journey, they fall in love and cross paths with Cornplanter, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Lafayette and Red Jacket. In his first novel, author Jim Smith tells the story of the Seneca, one of the six nations of the powerful Iroquois Confederacy and allies of the British in the Revolutionary War, and the love story of Wah-say-lan and Freeman Trentham/Jamwesaw--Cover.
Notes: James Herbert Smith has been a journalist for 40 years. He is the recipient of the Distinguished Writing Award from the American Society of Newspaper Editors and is a member of the Academy of New England Journalists. He is the author of A Passion for Journalism, A Newspaper Editor Writes to his Readers. Smith is executive editor of The Bristol Press and The New Britain Herald in Connecticut.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-323).