Boone's Woman: A Novel of America's Early Frontier

by Roger Stoner

In 1755, the British Colonies in the new world are embroiled in a war against the French and their Indian allies. A young woodsman named Daniel Boone wants to prove he can support a wife. He signs on as a teamster with General Edward Braddock's ill-fated army that is destroyed by the French and Indians near Fort Duquesne. Failing to prove his worth as a teamster, he turns to the life he knows best, hunting and trapping fur bearing animals. His success as a "Long Hunter" provides the income he needs to begin his life with a new wife, seventeen year old Rebecca Bryan. Between serving in the militia and leaving for long periods of time to hunt and trap, Rebecca is relegated to a life of fending for herself and their children in the wilderness of the early American frontier. Hunting for food and defending her family from wild animals and Indians only add to Rebecca's worries about her husband. But each time he leaves, he tells her not to worry because "I always come back." Everyone who knows Daniel agrees, that "he always comes back." Rebecca believed it too, until the time . . . he didn't

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1723251151
• ISBN13: 9781723251153
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"