The White Indians

In the mid-1790s, a young Welshman named John Evans, lustful and naive, finds himself embarked for the United States in search of a people of misty legend known as the White Indians. As Europe is torn by the Napoleonic Wars and America is rent by factional strife that threatens to tear her apart, Evans becomes a reluctant participant in international intrigues that lead him and his half-Seneca wife from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh, Frankfort, the Creek Nation, New Orleans, and finally to the frontier town of St. Louis. Here he joins the Missouri River fur trade as a means of furthering his quest, which will lead him ultimately farther into the uncharted West than white men have ever gone before. But the real mystery that draws him onward is the bitter memory of a father he has not seen since he was a child, and of Elen, the beloved companion of his earliest years, whose disappearance had darkened his mind to a brooding, dreamlike cast...



Myth and mystery, fact and fantasia, blend kaleidoscopically in these colorful pages on the theme of mankind’s westward seeking, that restless dance on the borderland between reality and illusion.