Charles Scribner & Sons, First edition No Dust Jacket, 1947

A substantial picture of seigneury life, with some touches of melodrama, this reflects the struggles of the English and the French of Queen Anne's War as it touches the family relationships of the Courville-Boissarts met earlier in The Heritage of the River (1945). Their son returns to French Canada bringing with him a friend, Antoine de Brieuvaux, who falls in love with their daughter Elise-and with their way of life. The father, fearing that Antoine might be his own son, breaks off the romance. Antoine returns to France to ascertain his true father's identity and comes again with the happy news that the barrier does not exist, only to find change and a new obstacle in his path....Marred by some rather childish writing, this nevertheless has a comfortable feeling of French pioneer life, of the farming, the fur trade, the regional customs.

First edition, printed by Charles Scribners and son, cover shows some wear, no dust jacket.