William W. Canfield
In this sequel to The White Seneca, Henry Cochrane, now eighteen, isentrusted with a message from the settlers of the Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania,to the Continental Army. They are suffering under the constantIndian raids instigated by the British and plead for protection. Because ofHenry’s knowledge of Indian ways, General George Washington requests hisservices as a scout for General Sullivan in the campaign to forever break thepower of the Iroquois Confederacy. In the fall of 1779, the combined armiesof Generals Sullivan and Clinton sweep across New York State, destroyingIndian villages and crops. Henry, alone and in constant peril, travels ahead ofthe Army seeking to warn his Indian friends of the coming destruction whilealso desperately searching for the beautiful Constance Leonard whom he hadbeen forced to leave in captivity a year earlier. 3