Reference BLOOD-AND-HONOR
Blood and Honor
The Life and Times of Fur Trader Pierre Louis de Lorimier by Robert Kuck II
This book, written by New Knoxville native Bob Kuck, paints a picture of our region of the country before the massive immigration of Europeans, when it was a wilderness, home only to the Native American Indians and the wildlife. It is the story of the life of Louis Lorimier, who established a trading post at nearby Fort Loramie, which was located on the Natives’ route of travel from the Gulf of Mexico to Lake Erie.
ADDITIONAL DETAILS
(from the back cover of the book)
Blood and Honor takes you to the frontier of North America in the 1700s. There you will witness events through the eyes of French fur trader Pierre-Louis de Lorimier. This is the first novel about his colorful life – from his birth near Montreal, Canada in 1748 to his death in Cape Girardeau, Missouri in 1812.
Watch him trade with Native tribes. Travel with him as he and Native warriors raid Kentucky settlements. Share in the capture of Daniel Boone, and be present when his trading post is looted and burned under orders from George Rogers Clark. Sit at the Lorimier dinner table in Cape Girardeau with Meriwether Lewis and Lorimier’s nephew George Drouillard. Meet Lorimier’s Shawnee wife Charlotte de Bougainville, and learn about the famous father she never knew. These events and more will take you back to a time when the country was new and the frontier was wild.
