CURSE OF THE FLEUR DE LIS - The Biography of Jacob Killman - Broken Ear (Ta-Honh-Ta-Riako) by Killman, Murray - 1990

Caledonia, Ontario: Killman Art Gallery Publishing, 1990. (xiii) 278 pp. Signed on the title page by Murray Killman. Blue boards lettered in gilt on the spine; headband; endpaper maps; illustrated with line drawings. Light rubbing on the corners of the dustjacket with a small chip from the upper edge of the front panel; aside from the author's signature, no interior markings. Dj art by Murray Killman. By birth, artist Jacob Kilman was an American. War forced him to leave his home in Upstate New York and become a United Empire Loyalist. The Chapters are: Albany Bush - his life in British colonial New York; Catharine's Town - home of his Seneca lover; The Committee Men - the rebel committee of safety; The Secret Expedition - the Loyalist counter attack; Painted Tories - a Loyalist guerrilla army is born; The Castle Smasher - the death of the confederacy; Flaming Arrows - flame and sword, Loyalist retaliation; The Last Command - the defeat of the rebel Daniel Boone; The Land Ticket - banishment, the struggle at Niagara; and A Province is Born - the War of 1813 and the new British colony of Upper Canada prevails.. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Murray Killman;. 8vo. Book.