Trapper's Moon
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Publisher Description
Sequel to the Golden Spur Award winner The Medicine Horn
Lemuel Hawke and his fifteen-year-old son, Morgan, are used to hard work and a hard life—they'd scratched out a living as farmers on unforgiving land. But nothing prepared them for the dangers of the trail they follow west, heading for the rich fur-trapping grounds of the Rocky Mountains.
Nature threatens the Hawkes with storms, floods, and deadly cold—but Nature's fury is not the only peril father and son must face. As they follow the trail laid by those who went before, so others follow them: an unscrupulous fur trader out to claim other men's wealth as his own; a man bent on avenging his murdered brother; a woman scorned.
Luckily, Lem and Morgan have allies: a band of trappers and mountain men whose gruff exteriors mask fierce loyalty and hard-won wisdom...and the Indians who see in young Morgan the beginnings of a powerful strength of spirit.
Praise for Jory Sherman
"Trapper's Moon takes us on a rough but exhilarating journey of discovery with a colorful group of trappers and Indians, bound for the Shining Mountains. It is quite a ride."
—Elmer Kelton, author of The Good Old Boys
"A vigorous look at the world of the mountain men of the old West."
—Publishers Weekly
"Jory paints word pictures with remarkable skill. His characters come to life against a rich historical background."
—Janet Dailey, author of Aspen Gold
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Though not equal to its 1991 Golden Spur-winning prequel, The Medicine Horn, this second volume in Sherman's Buckskinners trilogy offers a vigorous look at the world of the mountain men of the old West. Virginian Lem Hawke and his 15-year-old son, Morgan, back from the first novel, are west of the Mississippi, on their way to find fabled mountain man Silas Morgan and make their fortune trapping in the beaver-rich headwaters of the Yellowstone River. Behind them, though, rides vengeful Josie Montez, who blames his brother's accidental death on Lem. Teaming up with one-eyed Patch, a trail-wise woodsman, and Loon, his mute Delaware Indian companion, the Hawkes are beset by a series of trials and tribulations that begins with an encounter with a killer tornado and includes a conflict between father and son as Morgan, despite Lem's disillusionment with women and prejudice against Indians, falls for an Indian maiden. Violent episodes abound, concluding in a gory knife fight to the death between Morgan and Josie; and if Sherman falls prey to a few cliches this time out (the pretty Indian lass, for one; the silent Indian, for another), his fans should still enjoy this rugged, leathery offering.
