Canaan

Written by Donald McCaig

Narrated by Tom Stechschulte, Alyssa Bresnahan and Carine Montbertrand

This sequel to Donald McCaig's award-winning Civil War novel Jacob's Ladder delivers a gripping saga of Reconstruction America from Lee's 1865 surrender at Appomattox to Custer's 1876 massacre at Little Big Horn. McCaig follows the changing fortunes of a diverse ensemble of characters, including Edward, a wartime top sergeant for the 38th Regiment, U.S. Colored Troops. Travelling west as a scout, trail cook, cattle driver, and sharpshooter, he marries a Santee Indian.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
• Release date: Aug 22, 2008
• ISBN: 9781436133777

Donald McCaig

Donald McCaig is the award-winning author of Canaan as well as Jacob’s Ladder, designated “the best Civil War novel ever written” by the Virginia Quarterly. It won the Michael Shaara Award for Excellence in Civil War Fiction and the Library of Virginia Award for Fiction. He was chosen by the Margaret Mitchell estate to write Rhett Butler’s People, an authorized sequel to Gone with the Wind. He lives on a sheep farm in the mountains near Williamsville, Virginia, where he writes fiction, essays, and poetry, and trains and trials sheep dogs.

Reviews for Canaan

[shouldireadit · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

A sequel, in a way, to "Jacob's Ladder" as it continues the story of those characters. Luckily I'd already read "Jacob's Ladder," or I would've been lost with all the various characters' memories. Nice how it continues the story of what happened after the Civil War, including Reconstruction and the Indian Wars, including Custer and Little Big Horn.