Alice of Old Vincennes

by Maurice Thompson, Illustrations by Frederick Coffay Yohn

A thrilling historical romance set on the eve of the Revolutionary War, the No. 10 bestseller of the year 1900 told the story of Alice Tarleton, a young lady who was abducted as a child by a French trader and reared among Indians at Vincennes, in the Wabash Valley of Indiana.

As patriot troops fight to capture Vincennes (1779), Alice falls in love with the dashing and aristocratic Lt. Beverley, one of the officers in the frontier campaign led by Gen. George Rogers Clark. 

Much of the colorful background material is based on historical fact, and described masterfully by Maurice Thompson, a lawyer, poet and woodsman from Indiana who took a keen interest in the state's little known role in the American Revolution.

Illustration (Above): Frederick Coffay Yohn.  Source: Wikimedia Commons

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For historical images of Wabash Valley, Indiana (the setting of this novel) see the Wabash Valley Visions and Voices Digital Memory Project.