Miracle in the Wilderness

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Here is Paul Gallico’s most moving fable since the immortal The Snow Goose.
“This story was told to me when I was a boy, by my great-grandmother on a Christmas Eve by the fire. I always believed that stories told by great-grandmothers must be so, for their old eyes look inward and they recall . . .
“I never knew whether this was something she had heard, or perhaps read in old letters. yellowing in an attic loft, but only that it happened in the wilderness of Britain’s colonies in the New World in the long distant past on Christmas Eve.”
So begins Paul Gallico’s Christmas tale about a frontier family in colonial America. Jasper Adams had settled in the North American wilderness, cleared the forest, and built the fortlike cabin to which he later brought his bride, Dorcas, whom he had wooed and won in Albany. Her family was newly arrived from England, but her great love for Jasper enabled her to adapt to this new life. And in April 1752 she gave birth to their son. It was a hard life but a rewarding one. It was also dangerous. For the last fifty years the French, sometimes with Indian allies, and the British had been struggling for control of America. But constant vigilance and luck had kept Jaspers family and home safe. That is, until the morning of December 24, when an Indian raiding party surprised Dorcas while Jasper was out hunting. Without a miracle, all would be lost.
In this heartwarming story of faith and fortitude, Gallico describes a confrontation between two cultures and a victory for humanity.