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Eleven-year-old Lafe Birdwell didn't mind hard work, but Mr. Gibbs, to whom he had hired himself out, was a mean master. Mr. Gibbs's only interest in taking a hunting party into Cherokee territory was to kill as many buffalo as possible for their valuable hides and sell them for a large profit in the Carolinas. When the men rode out to hunt, Lafe was left behind to take care of the camp, and he was often lonely.
Worse than the loneliness and bleakness of his life, however, was the constant fear that hung over him. Lafe was scared—scared that the Cherokees would massacre them all, scared of one of the hunters who was bad-tempered and vicious. Most of all, though, he was afraid the men in the party would find out his father had turned renegade and gone over to the Indians—a rumor that had trickled back from a frontier post farther west.
In a story packed with the drama and danger of wilderness life, a leading writer whose earlier books of historical fiction include The Year of the Bloody Sevens and The Lone Hunt creates a vivid portrait of a boy who matures as he learns to face adversity with courage.
—from the dust jacket
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