Night of the White Raven

Danger, death and the unknown stalk two brave young mountain men, yet never far away is the spectral eerie presence of a mysterious White Bird.He left his home in Pennsylvania at the age of 15, accompanied by his old Indian friend, Mr. Joe. When he reached Starved Rock that fall of 1818, he'd already killed three men.Finding refuge in a blacksmith's stable, young Nathan saved every penny he earned to make his way West.At 17, he set out with his partner, a runaway slave, in their quest for beaver and a life of freedom in the untamed West.Ethan Miller's mountain man novel from the early 1800s is not only absorbing and entertaining, but filled with excitement and the flavor of the lifestyle of those brave people who dared to explore the unknown.Nathan is an unusual young man, deep in his beliefs, yet respectful of the world around him and quick to learn the ways of surviving in a new and little known environment with a culture of people foreign to his humble farm community in Pennsylvania at the turn of the 19th century.