John M. Cahill

 When Sean O’Cathail jumped ship in New York Harbor in 1681, he didn’t plan to become a boschloper. Getting into the fur trade was just where he landed. On the run, O’Cathail finds his way to Albany and becomes a fur trader at a time when English, Dutch and French colonists fight to control access to the fur-trapping natives. The colonial masters use diplomacy, subterfuge and force to suppress the natives while the natives employ all the means at their disposal to protect their lifestyle and even their very lives.In this environment, O’Cathail faces adversity, danger and intrigue while securing an English-Iroquois alliance, thus thwarting the efforts of the French to divide and ...