Bad Man Ballad

Bücher

Angebote / Angebote:

The time is 1813, during America's last war with England, the place isthe Ohio Valley, the thickly wooded, hilly, creek-carved highway of westernsettlement. Wolves still howl at midnight on village greens. Each log cabin is afortress, and no one travels without a knife and gun. Through this armed and fearfulcountryside, three people -- Ely Jackson, a 17-year-old backwoods boy, OwenLightfoot, a lawyer from Philadelphia with a romantic view of the frontier, and RainHawk, a half-breed girl living on her own in the wilderness -- chase an awesomequarry, a mysterious giant-like figure who is on the run for murder. Ely and Owenset out on the trail of the "Bearman" with the intent of bringing him"to justice, " while Rain Hawk struggles to protect him from the public'swrath. Bad Man Ballad is a riveting tale by a masterful storyteller and an appealingcontemporary addition to the Library of Indiana Classics.