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Hudson Frontier
In 1664 Albany was a prosperous city, a frontier post for the English whose possession it was and a center of solid Dutch citizens who had founded it in 1609. Lydia belonged to one of the Young Companies, an organization of the boys and girls of the town that for generations had been the social life for the young Albanians. In addition to enjoying good times together members of the Companies were bound to protect each other in any sort of trouble.
Because of this, Lydia and Wolf, the leader of her Company, found themselves involved in an exciting attempt to protect scatterbrained Andries. Treachery on the part of an Alderman, a mysterious ship’s captain, Indian messengers and a stolen pig all played their parts in the final unraveling of how the French knew exactly what the English and Dutch were doing to protect this Hudson frontier.
The charming life of the city, the friction between the Dutch and the English, the gradual merging of both sides into an American society, make an interesting background fir this exciting story for teen-age readers.
Because of this, Lydia and Wolf, the leader of her Company, found themselves involved in an exciting attempt to protect scatterbrained Andries. Treachery on the part of an Alderman, a mysterious ship’s captain, Indian messengers and a stolen pig all played their parts in the final unraveling of how the French knew exactly what the English and Dutch were doing to protect this Hudson frontier.
The charming life of the city, the friction between the Dutch and the English, the gradual merging of both sides into an American society, make an interesting background fir this exciting story for teen-age readers.
Hardcover
Published January 1, 1942
About the author
Erick Berry
96 books7 followersAllena Champlin Berry Best (January 4, 1892 -February 1974) was an American illustrator, author, and fashion designer.
She wrote under the names Erick Berry & Anne Maxon.
Allena Champlin grew up in Albany & studied at the Eric Pape School in Boston and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. After working as a commercial artist, she went to further her studies in Paris, and then travelled in West Africa. It was there that she met her second husband, the writer Herbert Best, who worked for the British Government. She illustrated all of his children’s books, and most of her own.
Erick Berry wrote or illustrated over 100 books. Her most notable titles were Winged Girl of Knossos, which she wrote and illustrated, and which was the recipient of a 1934 Newbery Honor award, and Apprentice of Florence and Garram the Hunter, a Boy of the Hill Tribes, which she illustrated and which were Newbery Honor winners in 1934 and 1931 respectively.
She wrote under the names Erick Berry & Anne Maxon.
Allena Champlin grew up in Albany & studied at the Eric Pape School in Boston and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. After working as a commercial artist, she went to further her studies in Paris, and then travelled in West Africa. It was there that she met her second husband, the writer Herbert Best, who worked for the British Government. She illustrated all of his children’s books, and most of her own.
Erick Berry wrote or illustrated over 100 books. Her most notable titles were Winged Girl of Knossos, which she wrote and illustrated, and which was the recipient of a 1934 Newbery Honor award, and Apprentice of Florence and Garram the Hunter, a Boy of the Hill Tribes, which she illustrated and which were Newbery Honor winners in 1934 and 1931 respectively.
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