About the author
John M. Cahill was born and raised in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, in the history-rich Berkshire Hills. He earned a B.A. degree in journalism and political science from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. After graduation, he moved to New York’s Capital District where, for 34 years, he enjoyed a successful and rewarding career in public relations and social marketing with New York State government. It was while living in New York’s Mohawk Valley that he took an interest in the history of 17th-century New York and began to explore the relationships and interactions of the Dutch and English fur traders with their Iroquois neighbors and their French adversaries. He now lives with his wife in Vienna, Austria.
Primitive Passions: Book One of The Boschloper Saga
Descartes observed that there are only six primitive passions: wonder, love, hatred, desire, joy, and sadness. All six could be found in abundance in 17th-century New York. Dutch and Canadian fur traders competed to control access to the natives; their English and French masters used diplomacy, subterfuge and force to suppress the natives; and, the natives employed any and all means at their disposal to protect their lifestyle and even their very lives. Sean O’Cathail finds himself in this environment after he jumps ship in Manhattan harbor and makes his way to Albany to become a fur trader. A Dutch fur trader, A...
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