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Loyalists' Tale. The view from the other side in the American Revolution |
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"A tale of the American Revolution most US citizens never heard in history class...a rare chance to view the flip side of our history. A fascinating story... unique and well told."
--Pat McKenna, The Times-Tribune, Scanton, PA |
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"Epic cadences describing the passions and agonies that led people to Canada. This is the way our history should be written."
-- Michael-Allan Marion, The Brantford Expositor
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"Handsomely-done story of a Loyalist spy, war-time derring-do and the first family of Hamilton."
-- Dan Smith, The Toronto Star |
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"Dramatic blend of fact and fiction...imaginative...absorbing...strongly written. Readers, history buffs or not, will find plenty to enjoy."
-- Andrew Vowles, The Hamilton Spectator |
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If Ponies Rode Men is the harrowing, true story of the first family of Hamilton, set against the blood and smoke of the American Revolution. It chronicles the real-life adversities of Loyalist Robert Land as a British spy, backwoods recruiter and comrade-in-arms to the legendary Joseph Brant. Burned out of his home on the Upper Delaware in Pennsylvania and sentenced to death for treason, he was saved from the gallows by none-other than George Washington.
One son survived a Rebel hanging and spent the war in irons, a second son joined the Crown forces and fought beside American turncoat Benedict Arnold in the dying days of the war.
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.
Drawing on the thorough research of the historical record and a sound understanding of the times, Hamilton Spectator reporter 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 nation.
Published by the Stoney Creek Historical Society with original art by Juanita Mitchell, cover painting "Robert Land on Little Lake", by Peter Rindlisbacher. |
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Ordering Information |
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Praise for Ponies - Reviews |
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Biography of James Elliott |
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Chapter 1 |
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Another book by James Elliott - Billy Green and the Battle of Stoney Creek |
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Email James Elliott at jaselliott@yahoo.ca |
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