TY - SER
KW - Native Americans
KW - Welsh Americans
KW - Madoc
AU - James Alexander Thom
AB - Based on the medieval legend of Prince Madoc, son of a 12th-century Welsh king, who, along with 10 boats of his followers, sailed to America—300 years before Columbus. Madoc plants a colony in the Ohio River Valley and confronts and then blends with Native Americans, forming a tribe of Welsh “White Indians.”
C1 - 1100s
C3 - Allegheny Mountains; Allegheny River; Monongahela River; Ohio River; Allegheny County; Pittsburgh
C4 - Utopian/Dystopian; Historical; Immigrant
CY - New York
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N2 - Based on the medieval legend of Prince Madoc, son of a 12th-century Welsh king, who, along with 10 boats of his followers, sailed to America—300 years before Columbus. Madoc plants a colony in the Ohio River Valley and confronts and then blends with Native Americans, forming a tribe of Welsh “White Indians.”
PB - Ballantine Books
PP - New York
PY - 1994
RN - James Thom (1933—) is an Indiana writer known well for his historical Westerns which have sold more than two million copies. He served in the U. S. Marines in Korea.
EP - 547 p.
TI - The Children of the First Man
ER -