![]() ![]() Ann and John Clark, pioneers themselves, still feel ""free and young"" in 1773-through son George, the ""golden tongued"" surveyor of Kentucky land and ""consort of savages."" George admires particularly the Mingo Chief Logan-a doomed friendship in a continent that's just ""not big enough."" And though he'll fight Lord Dunsmore's war against the Shawnees, George believes war to be ""useless and tragic,"" and he has doubts about his beloved but ruthless comrades-in-arms. No one family wrought more change on this country than did the Clerks of Virginia,"" announces the ghostly voice of Ann Rogers Clark in this 900-page, clean-timbered, exuberant overview of some notable 18th-century sons of the real-life Virginia family. ![]()
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