After the Napoleonic wars, Captain Patrick Loraine sells his commission and settles his family on a farm in Illinois. His son tells of rough roads, a brave enslaved man his father tries to buy free, the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky, trapping and turkey hunting, and a wagon train that crosses the prairie under threat from Indian horsemen.
A vigorous frontier adventure for boys, with the anti-slavery sympathies and Native American stereotypes of its 1870s author. Download the free EPUB.