By Ethel C. Brill (From Adam to Us Units 22-23)

Based on a true story, this book looks at life for French Canadians in the 1690s and their conflict with the local Iroquois.

See the Notes to Parents on the Literature in the Answer Key.

Working from feverish haste, Madeline, selected muskets, pistols, powder, and bullets. The site of a man’s hat, an old one that has belonged to her father, lying on a powdered cast, gives her an idea.