Lure of the Wild

In 1828, although the United States had only been in existence for fifty years, some cities were already bustling metropolises. Beyond the Mississippi River, however, lay a vast region unexplored by white men. There nineteen-year-old Nathaniel King and a rugged mountain man named Shakespeare McNair headed fro a rendezvous of trappers and fur traders in the Rocky Mountains. But hostile Utes and Blackfeet Indians pursued them relentlessly, determined to have their scalps. Despite the protection of a friendly band of Shoshone, Nathaniel and his companion faced a peril that might mean not the end of the quest for freedom, but the end of their lives.