In her own footsteps : Flora Ross and her struggle for identity and independence in the colonial west : a novel based on a true story
"In the summer of 1859, British and American troops nearly went to war over a small island in the Pacific Northwest, each claiming sovereignty over the region in a military standoff that has become known as the "Pig War" of San Juan Island. In the midst of the dispute sat a Hudson's Bay Company farm, where seventeen year-old Flora Ross, the Métis daughter of a prominent company family, nursed the dying wife of a farmworker. The American instigat...
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