A Virginia Scout

At dawn, Basdel Morris crawls out of a hollow sycamore into birdsong—and checks that his rifle is primed.

It is June 1774 on the Monongahela, where a scout’s woodland refuge lies within reach of a war already kindled by years of raids, reprisals and rival claims to the frontier. Morris is carrying important despatches to Virginia’s Governor Dunmore, with danger on the trail and the wilderness’s beauty all around him. He knows the struggle is no simple tale of one side’s innocence: settlers and Native peoples are locked in a bitter contest for the same country, each carrying memories of wrongs. Can Morris get his message through before the frontier’s simmering violence erupts into open war?

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