A Susquehanna Tale

My Kind of Read

The author makes masterful use of the historic Colonel William Montgomery, farmer, merchant and founder of Danville, PA, as a foil for the fictional frontier scout Alexander Tennant, while the Susquehanna River flows through their memories and mine. Their conversations and musings adroitly bring into play the pivotal treaties, massacres and battles of their lifetime, all now reduced to roadside historic markers. Pastor Andrews skillfully weaves names—those of settlers and native peoples, of places and landmarks, of rivers and creeks— into the fabric of the times. Tennant, most at home in the wilderness, is a man of action whose adventures are vividly described, and a man of conscience who quotes the Bible but carries two tomahawks and the best Lancaster-made flintlock on the frontier.