Frederick Whittaker 2 hr 10 min read

In the forests of the Revolutionary frontier, around Burgoyne's surrender, a mysterious hermit's old crime moves toward its reckoning.

Frederick Whittaker's 1872 Beadle-and-Adams dime novel sets its tale of guilt and expiation amid war-painted warriors and lonely woodland, in the brisk, lurid style of America's popular fiction. A period artifact of the dime-novel era. Read it for rough-hewn frontier adventure from the heyday of the cheap paperbound thriller.

In its time

Published in 1872, during the 1870s, under the sea and around the moon.

Reading it

2 hr 10 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).