Charles Augustus Murray, a Scottish traveller who had lived among the Pawnee, wrote this long frontier romance of hunters, missionaries and Native nations. The young Ethelston, the scout and trapper Bearskin and a good missionary travel the plains and forests, and the story turns on the mysterious girl called the Prairie-Bird and the Indian peoples around her.
An 1844 frontier novel drawing on real experience of Plains life, with the attitudes of its time. Download the free EPUB.