When their homestead is attacked by Indians, Rachel and Ralph become separated. Each must endure the hardships of a 25-mile journey through the wilderness to Fort Osage, (now Sibley, Missouri).
Before she begins the trek, Rachel must be her own midwife while her husband fights off a small Shawnee hunting party. Afterward she must put aside her phobia of the wilderness and concentrate on getting their newborn son to safety.
Ralph, injured in the attack is trying to keep the pursuing Indians off Rachel’s trail. They both discover something about the wilderness, the Indians and themselves.
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A colonial adventure novella that will hang on to the reader like a refrigerator to a magnet.
Short, swift and moving.
Savage Wilderness
Linda Louise Rigsbee
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