Word: bedford
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Roly-poly, voluble Jean François Pouliot loves to talk & talk. Like his father, his grandfather and his great-grandfather before him, he is a member of the House of Commons. He once talked Tory Prime Minister Richard Bedford Bennett into giving his home town (Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec) a new railroad station. Another time he talked his party (Liberal) into building a dock on an unnavigable stream. In four sessions he addressed Parliament 471 times...
...Volume II the frontier has advanced to the Juniata. The Forest and the Fort chiefly concerned the adventures of Salathiel Al-bine, who was kidnapped and brought up by the Indians, grew into a 6 ft. 4 in. paleface with muscles like "fluid oak wood." Salathiel reappears in Bedford Village as one of seven frontiersmen who help Captain Jack Fenwick carry out his vow to exterminate the Indians...
...vengeful and sometimes a little crazy. For he remembered the night when, in his absence, a party of drunken Hurons and five half-breed Frenchmen burned his house, tortured his wife and two children to death. Captain Jack's is the best of the four main stories in Bedford Village which Novelist Allen ties together like a garrulous storekeeper wrapping up packages...
...Bedford Village was the last outpost of the frontier. Two thousand settlers crowded under the walls of its fort. Around the village in every direction "stretched the illimitable forest," murder-haunted and mysterious, and green as shoal water, through which the Indians glided like sharks through reefs. Most of the action in the novel results from Indian troubles intensified by the French-British wars in Europe, the fact that the Bedford garrison was mutinous, and that the Quaker legislature in Philadelphia would not appropriate funds to fight the redskins...
...Captain Jack undertook to save Bedford Village and the Pennsylvania frontier. His forces: seven men. His strategy: to attack, surprise, ambush the Indian war parties over as great a territory as possible to give the impression his seven men were a battalion. As savage as the savages, the seven almost succeeded...