JACK CASEY (1950—) writes novels about his native upstate New York. His books include LILY OF THE MOHAWKS (Bantam, 1984), A LAND BEYOND THE RIVER (Bantam, 1988; Diamond Rock, 2005) and THE TRIAL OF BAT SHEA (Diamond Rock, 1994, 2011). He has written two staged versions of BAT—one, a play with music, the other a …
A LAND BEYOND THE RIVER, a novel by Jack Casey, tells of the story of how the Erie Canal was built across the wilderness of New York State. The year is 1810. The infant American nation clings to its Atlantic seaboard, blocked by westward expansion by a mountain range. For decades men have dreamt of …
TROY, N.Y., 1894—Boss Edward Murphy, a United States Senator, rules this upstate mill city from his brewery. Thugs and repeaters emerge from ward saloons on election day to stuff ballot boxes and keep Murphy’s men in office. When a posse of vigilantes turns out to stop the voting fraud, a young industrialist is gunned down. …
THE ODYSSEY OF AN UNFORGETTABLE WOMAN IN A SAVAGE LAND From the sensual, golden splendors of Louis XIV’s Versailles to an untamed America blazing with the French and India wars, here is the enthralling true drama of an embattled Mohawk nation and its daughter, Kateri Tekawitha — who might one day become the first American …