Little Oskaloo; Or, The White Whirlwind

This is a rip-roaring frontier adventure set in the 1790s, when the American frontier burned with conflict. As General Wayne's army advances against the Shawnee and Delaware nations, two scouts, Wolf Cap and the young Harvey Catlett, race to protect the isolated Merriweather family from the storm of war. But the real danger may come from within: Jim Girty, the treacherous White Whirlwind, moves through both worlds with duplicitous intent, while the enigmatic Little Moccasin defies easy understanding, connected to the tribal world in ways that shift the novel's moral ground. Harbaugh delivers action and suspense in abundance, yet the book quietly asks what loyalty means when nations collide and identity becomes a matter of survival. This is frontier fiction unapologetic in its era's assumptions but gripping in its portrayal of a young nation bleeding its way westward.