Word: salathiel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Volume I, The Forest and the Fort (TIME, April 5, 1943), was laid in Pennsylvania's Delaware Valley country. In 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...
...Salathiel grew into a huge young man, respected for his strength by the young Indian males, worrisome to the girls be cause of his white skin. Though he learned eagerly the lore of the Shawnees, Salathiel felt himself a square peg in a round hole. Fortunately Big Turtle, tiring of incessant bickering with white enemies, decided to turn over his white captives to the commander of the British stockade, Fort Pitt. With the captives went Salathiel...
...route to Fort Pitt, Salathiel met a white girl and, after passing the day alone with her in the forest, was hastily mar ried to her by a friendly preacher. Almost immediately they were separated, for en try into bristling Fort Pitt was not for everyone. Inside the fort, Salathiel met the commandant Captain Ecuyer, became his valet and bodyguard. From the Cap tain he learned discipline, borrowed such books as Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Richard son's Clarissa Harlowe...
Love & Hate. With the colorful Captain, Salathiel went on a tour of British strongholds, observing the ways of white soldiers and the endless struggle between them and the independent, ambitious native settlers. Indian attacks taught him to hate all redskins. His country, the new America, he found to be a land that began west of the Alleghenies, "the seeds of it . . . scattered in lonely cabins," where liberty was not a dream but "a state of nature to be successfully lived in." Slowly, surely, the forest was giving way to the fort...
...Allen's rapid, narrative style. Less admirable is his tendency to concentrate long, if lovingly, on surfaces. Like his fellow historian in American fiction, Robert Graves, Allen is weakest in his departures into romantic interludes. Unlike Graves, he has a passion for extremes; the 6 ft. 4 in. Salathiel Albine with muscles "like fluid oak wood" and the movements of "a young male panther" sets the superscale that marks the whole work for good and bad. And in his eager use of sentimental aspects of the Scottish border novel, Allen is capable of sinking to turgid depths, of causing...