Alice of old Vincennes Book

It has been fascinating to read the writing style of 1900, when this book was written -- highly descriptive yet not slow, as I expected, captivating in fact. This historical novel figures into my reading agenda of the past year focused on trans-Appalachia migration and the eighteenth-century history of Kentucky and Indiana. The book's historical peg: In 1779 George Rogers Clark expelled the British from Fort Sackville, in Vincennes, Indiana, claiming the Northwest Territories (Ohio, Indiana and Illinois) for the America colonies. (My sidelight: Clark put my ancestor in charge of Fort Sackville when he moved on to Detroit.) This little volume, highly popular in 1901, was republished in 2006 by Britain's Echo Library, a group devoted to preserving rare and out-of-print classics. "Alice of Old Vincennes" is listed by Karl Bridges among the "100 Greatest American Novels You've (Probably) Never Read."