The Long Hunter's Journals

The Kentucke Territory is a wild and dangerous land where rival tribes, greedy land speculators, and determined pioneers clash for control of an untamed wilderness. Few men venture into its rugged mountains and dark forests—and even fewer survive long enough to carve out a future there.

When Jedediah Stroud's family is massacred in a raid carried out by renegade Shawnee warriors working for corrupt white settlers, the young apprentice gunsmith is left alone with his grief. Determined to become a longhunter and make his own way on the frontier, Jedediah struggles to leave thoughts of vengeance behind and build a new life in the wilderness.