If
Ponies Rode Men
The
Journeys of Robert Land, 1777 - 1791
by
James Elliott
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 "A
tale of the American Revolution most US citizens never heard in
history class...
a rare chance to view the flip side of our history. A fascinating
story... unique and well told."
~ Pat McKenna, Times-Tribune,
Scanton, PA
"Epic cadences describing
the passions and agonies that led people to Canada.
This is the way our history should be written."
~ Michael-Allan Marion, Brantford
Expositor
"Handsomely-done story of
a Loyalist spy, war-time derring-do and the first family of Hamilton."
~ Dan Smith, Toronto
Star
"Dramatic blend of fact and
fiction...imaginative...absorbing...strongly written.
Readers, history buffs or not, will find plenty to enjoy."
~ Andrew Vowles, Hamilton
Spectator
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If Ponies Rode Men is the harrowing,
true story of the first family of Hamilton, set against the
blood and smoke of the American Revolution. It chronicles the
real-life adversities of Loyalist Robert Land as a British spy,
backwoods recruiter and comrade-in-arms to the legendary Joseph
Brant. Burned out of his home on the Upper Delaware in Pennsylvania
and sentenced to death for treason, he was saved from the gallows
by none-other than George Washington.
One son survived a Rebel hanging
and spent the war in irons, a second son joined the Crown forces
and fought beside American turncoat Benedict Arnold in the dying
days of the war.
And behind the whole family
stood Land's wife, the courageous Phoebe who kept her family together
through all the dark days of privation and heartbreak.
Drawing on the thorough research
of the historical record and a sound understanding of the times,
James Elliott has taken a Hamilton legend and rendered it believably
whole in a work of imagination and scholarship that has been praised
by novelists and historians alike.
If Ponies Rode Men
is a story of war and refuge, the view from the other side in
the American Revolution where loyalty to the King exacted a steep
price in blood, cost thousands their birthright as citizens and
spawned the beginning of a new nation.
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