In the year 1754 the stillness of Charlestown New Hampshire is shattered bythe terrifying cries of an Indian raid. Young Miriam Willard on a day that hadpromise... » 

In the year 1754 the stillness of Charlestown New Hampshire is shattered bythe terrifying cries of an Indian raid. Young Miriam Willard on a day that hadpromised new happiness finds herself instead a captive on a forest trailcaught up in the ebb and flow of the French and Indian War.It is a harrowing march north. Miriam can only force herself to the nextstopping place the next small portion of food the next icy stream to becrossed. At the end of the trail waits a life of hard work and perhaps even alife of slavery. Mingled with her thoughts of Phineas Whitney her sweethearton his way to Harvard is the crying of her sisters baby Captive born on thetrail.Miriam and her companions finally reach Montreal a city of shifting loyaltiesfilled with the intrigue of war and here by a sudden twist of fortune Miriammeets the prominent Du Quesne family who introduce her to a life she has neverimagined. Based on an actual narrative diary published in 1807 Calico Captiveskillfully reenacts an absorbing facet of history. «