The Ballad of Uriah: A Mountain Man Story (A Uriah: Mountain Man Story #1)

Mike Mackessy


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The Ballad of Uriah: A Mountain Man Story by Mike Mackessy

A brand new Mountain Man adventure from Mike Mackessy!

This is a story of a young man, quitting school to run to the mountains and join the beaver trappers and Indian traders.  Understanding enough about himself, he realizes he is not yet prepared for such an adventure.  He prepares himself by working for three years on a railroad crew.  Working adds the strength, maturity, and of course fighting skills learned from the rough and tumble life of an early railroad camp.  One of the self-taught lessons he improves on is hunting.  For a year and a half, in addition to swinging a pick, he lands meat on the table of the camp on his single day off.  All the pre-apprentice skills he acquires prove their worth in the mountains.

Before he reaches the Rockies, he is captured and tortured by the Blackfoot Indians. He is rescued by an old hand, another mountain man named Micah.  What he learns from the Crow and from Micah prepares him for his apprenticeship in the wilds.  He matures, living and trading with the Crow and the Cheyenne.  Uriah acquires the help from a young Cheyenne captive passing on his hard learned lessons.  Not one of those lessons prepares either man for what will face them.

Their life is filled with Indian raids, grizzly bear attacks, mountain lion fights, and of course, buffalo hunting.  Life in the wild revolves around the buffalo.

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