Sequel to Le Quebecois: The Virgin Forest. Bastien and Marguerite's first Canadian-born descendants face trials and challenges that are quite different from those experienced by their parents. This family saga coninues as the French immigrant couple's children marry and establish their own homes and families, mostly across the Saint-Lawrence River. As militiamen and voyageurs, their sons and sons-in-law travel more than a thousands miles inland by way of the western rivers and Great Lakes. A period of rapid exploration and extension of the Canadian frontiers and marked increase in fur exports brings great wealth to France. A struggle for control over frontier territories pits English provinces and Iroquois allies against Canadians, Acadians and their allies, while British King William III of Orange and French King Louis XIV vie for political, religious, and military dominance in Europe and North America.