The Backwoodsman

Magnolias scent the night, fireflies flicker over the prairie, and the hunter sleeps beside his dog, Trusty. At dawn, a Comanche’s arrow tears through his clothes toward his breast—and the quiet wilderness becomes a race for survival.

Sir Lascelles Wraxall’s mid-19th-century frontier narrative begins at a lonely blockhouse by the River Leone, with hundreds of miles between the hunter’s small garrison and its nearest civilized neighbours. He rides out each day to feed his three men, trusting his horse, his revolver and the wild country he knows so well. But when buffalo herds draw horsemen across the plains, even a successful hunt can bring danger back to the fort. How long can one backwoodsman keep watch over his isolated settlement?

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