Backcountry Fury: A Sixteen-Year-Old Patriot in the Revolutionary War

by Tony Zeiss

Vowing revenge after his brother is killed by Bloody Bill Cunningham and his marauding Tories, 16-year-old Thomas Young joins the Little River Regiment of Mounted Militia in 1780. This book chronicles 18 months in Thomas's life as he fights in the South Carolina back country during the Revolutionary War. It follows Thomas as his friend is severely wounded during the battle at Stallion's Plantation and as he finds himself in the thick of the fighting...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1597124095
• ISBN13: 9781597124096
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Blair
• Length: 175 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7