Red Ralph, the River Rover; or, The Brother's Revenge

1884 · 16 pages

*Red Ralph, the River Rover: or, The Brother's Revenge* Author: Ned Buntline Genre: Historical adventure romance, colonial Virginia setting This serialized tale, set in 1753, follows Eugene Rolfe, a young man of mixed French and Native ancestry (his grandmother was Pocahontas), whose romantic attachment to the beautiful Mignionette Minier—a girl from a genteel but less wealthy French family—provokes family conflict. Eugene's proud, aristocratic father disapproves and threatens to force him into military service. His elder brother Francis, harboring his own designs on Mignionette, insults her, provoking Eugene to beat him. When Eugene defends his mother against Francis's verbal abuse, his father grows furious at his son's defiance and threatens to disown him. The narrative sets up a family rupture driven by class prejudice and romantic rivalry.

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