What's Fiction, what's Fact
Kaskaskia is a real place. During the French period it did serve as a trading post. Boats from Kaskaskia did bring grain and other crops down to New Orleans. When the French lost the French and Indian War, the land went over to the British, and many of the local inhabitants went across the river to St Louis, which was still French.
Over the years, Kaskaskia lost it prominence in trade. It also suffered a change in the path of the Mississippi, as the river flipped from the western side of the city to the east, making the city an island. A geographic oddity of the place is that it is part of Illinois, but only accessible from Missouri. At the last census only 8 residents remained.
The Canadian Civil War
Volume 5
Carbines and Calumets
[Author’s note – this will be the final volume in the series]