If Ponies Rode Men: The Journeys of Robert Land, 1777-1791

Elliott, James

ISBN 10: 096861390X / ISBN 13: 9780968613900

Published by Stoney Creek Historical Society, Stoney Creek, ON, Canada, 1999

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Good condition. Moderate wear. Bindingtight, pages slightly age toned, otherwise clean. Appears to be signed by the author. Picturesavailableupon request. dw.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: If Ponies Rode Men: The Journeys of Robert Land, 1777-1791
• Publisher: Stoney Creek Historical Society, Stoney Creek, ON, Canada
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 096861390X
• ISBN 13: 9780968613900
• Binding: softcover
• Illustrator: Mitchell, Juanita
• Condition: Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

George Washington saved his neck, Joseph Brant watched his back -- The view from the other side in the American Revolution.

IF PONIES RODE MEN is the harrowing true story of Loyalist Robert Land set against the blood and smoke of America's first civil war. It chronicles the real-life adventures and adversities of Land as a British spy, backwoods recruiter and comrade-in-arms to the legendary Mohawk war chief, Joseph Brant. Burned out of his Pennsylvania homestead and sentenced to death for treason, he was spared the gallows by a judicious George Washington.

One son was hanged by Patriots, one son died in the squalor of wartime New York City and one son fought alongside American turncoat Benedict Arnold.

And behind the whole family stood Land's wife, the courageous Phoebe who kept her family together through all the dark days of privation and heartbreak. At the end of the war the family was reunited and became the founding first family of the city of Hamilton, Ontario.

Drawing on extensive research of the historical record and sound understanding of the times, author and historian James Elliott has taken a Hamilton legend and rendered it believably whole in a work of imagination and scholarship that has been praised by novelists and historians alike.

IF PONIES RODE MEN is a story of war and refuge, the view from the other side in the American Revolution where loyalty to the King exacted a steep price in blood, cost thousands their birthright as citizens and spawned the beginning of a new northern nation.

About the Author

Canadian James Elliott is an award-winning journalist, historian and author. He worked on several episodes of the accalimed CBC television series, Canada: A People's History as a consultant and re-enactor as well as Brian McKenna's documentaries, 1812 and Chiefs and the A&E feature The Crossing. He lives in Hamilton, Ontario where he is the heritage writer for the Hamilton Spectator.