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I wonder if my subconscious stole Benning Wentworth's name for Lord William Wentworth...
— Dec 09, 2010 08:33AM
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I don't think I will ever get enough of reading or writing about this period of history. Reading this made me wish all my historicals could be set during the F&I War.
— Jan 16, 2011 09:07AM
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I'm up to July 1759, which brings me to the end of Morgan's book (Untamed). I need to hurry up because I need to get to the winter of 1760 to get to the period in which Connor’s book is set. And I don't have a lot more time, given that I need to write six chapters in January to meet my deadline.
— Dec 27, 2010 04:29PM
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The strength and endurance of Rogers and his men astonishes. I get cold just sitting here reading about their winter exploits.
— Dec 17, 2010 10:06PM
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Just read about the death of Col. Ephraim Williams and William Johnson getting shot in the arse. I didn't realize they'd fallen back on Ft. Lyman (Fort Edward, aka, Fort Elizabeth). Strange to think of Johnson wandering around, with Robert Rogers and his men camping on the perimeter. The area, such a dangerous place to be at the time, became the home for Rogers and his Rangers. I can see it in my head.
— Dec 08, 2010 08:44PM
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I finally requested this from the library. I can't wait to check it out!
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Be prepared for the gruesome torture part. You'll see what I mean when I say I toned it waaay down for RIDE THE FIRE.
Pamela wrote: "Be prepared for the gruesome torture part. You'll see what I mean when I say I toned it waaay down for RIDE THE FIRE."I had meant to ask you if that was truly the way that tribe tortured people. With the dinner before, the offer of women... but then I figured, hey, it's Pamela writing... of course it was real.
How one human being can do that to another, is beyond me.
There are some accounts in WAR ON THE RUN that are just harrowing: A pregnant woman being taken captive and marched through frigid weather, which forced her into labor. When the newborn baby cried, the Indian men who'd taken her, dumped embers in its little mouth and speared it with a pike and set the pike in the ground. :-(God, reading that broke my heart. I said prayers for the baby and its poor mother.
And that's not all of it (the worst of it, perhaps).
Oh, that is so, so horrific. I don't know if I'm strong enough to read this, but I'm going to try. You know how much I enjoy the story behind the story, but I don't think I'll enjoy parts of this much at all :(
There's only one section on it, though it might be mentioned on and off later. There are about a dozen really tough pages.When I wrote RTF, I actually read one priest's eyewitness account and it left me feeling shaken for days.
Then I softened it up -- and inflicted it on all of you to help me get over it.
Pamela wrote: "Then I softened it up -- and inflicted it on all of you to help me get over it. "LOL! Thanks - I think.
Seriously, that prologue was the most harrowing, gut wrenching scene I've read, ever. And not just the torture, but all of it together... the mind games, the way they tried to absolve themselves by offering a feast and women - it left me shaken (a very good descriptive) for days.
