choctaw's

Updated: July 7, 2025

I loved this humble home, for in such a one my mother and I had spent those last years of sweet good-comradeship before her death the roses, the rude house, all reminded me of her, of peace, of gentler things. The character of its lone occupant protected this lowly abode far better than the armies of France, the chivalry of Spain, or the Choctaw's ceaseless vigilance could possibly have done.

Harris Dickson - The Black Wolf's Breed: A Story of France in the Old World and the New, happening: in the Reign of Louis XIV