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Pennsylvania native Richter was well-known as a serious writer of historical fiction set on the Pennsylvania and Ohio frontier (one of his other novels won a Pulitzer Prize). This is one of his "minor" works, and is certainly short enough to be a fairly quick read; but nonetheless, it doesn't lack for emotional intensity or for complexity of thought content. It has a lot in common with Schuman's much longer Strife Before Dawn, the book I reviewed previously: the two novels share a setting, and t
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