At sixty, an old Kansan recalls growing up in Springvale on the Neosho River in the 1860s, when settlers, traders and Plains tribes shared an uneasy prairie. His youth is shadowed by the enmity of Jean Pahusca and drawn into the Indian wars, including the fight at Beecher Island under Colonel Forsyth, while he loves a girl from his hometown.
A popular pioneer romance of Kansas, whose view of the Plains peoples is that of a settler’s daughter of 1910. Download the free EPUB.