Cardigan

TitleCardigan
Year of Publication1901
Publication TypeNovel
Number of Pages or Episodes512 p.
LanguageEnglish
AuthorsChambers, Robert William
PublisherHarper & Brothers Publishing
CityNew York and London
KeywordsColonial America; Native Americans; William Johnson (1715-74)
Abstract

Set just before the Revolutionary War, young Michael Cardigan is sent by his guardian, Sir William Johnson, from Johnstown, New York into Western Pennsylvania to prevent an Cayuga Indian uprising.

Notes

First appeared as a serial in Harper’s Weekly.

Author Biography

Robert William Chambers (1865-1933), born in Brooklyn, was an artist and fiction writer, best known for The King in Yellow (1895).

Time

1774-5