Laura (Ingersoll) Secord was 38 when she took her famous twenty hour walk through the Niagara peninsula woods on June 22, 1813, to warn the British commander, Lieutenant FitzGibbon, of an imminent American attack. Author Connie Brummel Crook begins her novel when Laura was 12.

"A commemorative edition published for the bicentennial anniversary of the War of 1812"--Prelim.