Emigres in the Wilderness
Emigres in the Wilderness

Emigres in the Wilderness

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xvi, 247 pp. CONTENTS: Part I. The Royalists: Paris in 1776; The Le Rays of France; The Coterie at Passy; The Wild Lands; La Compagnie De New York; Hunting the Promised Land; The Fight with the Wilderness; The Founders of Asylum; Asylum Built; The Emigres Arrive; Asylum Abandoned; The Seigneur of Slab City; The Butternut Valley; The Overlords of the Northland. Part II. The Bonapartists: A King Comes to America; Royalty Roughs It; The Conspirators of Cape Vincent; The Grande Dame of Great Bend; A Progenitor of Genius. Part III. Half-Breed or Kings?: The Bourbon Mystery; The Caughnawaga Williamses; Boy, Soldier and Missionary; Migration Westward; The Dauphin in the Temple; The Dauphin in America; The Visit of De Joinville; The Controversy; Finis; Bibliography; Index.