Trail and Trading Post; or, The Young Hunters of the Ohio
Trail and Trading Post; or, The Young Hunters of the Ohio
Two brothers. A wilderness. And the very real danger of a Seneca warrior watching from the shadows. Dave and Henry Morris have come to the Ohio frontier to hunt, trade, and prove themselves in a land where the old ways still hold sway. Around them, the British colonies press westward, and every forest path carries the risk of encounter with tribes whose patience with settlers grows thinner by the day. When a snowstorm drives the boys to shelter in an abandoned council-house, they have no idea they're not alone: Boka the Fox, a Seneca hunter known for his deadly skill, has been watching and waiting. What begins as a test of wilderness survival becomes something far more perilous: a game of nerves against an adversary who has every reason to see them harm. Written in 1906 as part of Stratemeyer's Colonial Series, this is raw adventure fiction from an era when boys were expected to be brave, the frontier was still wild, and every rustle in the underbrush could mean life or death. For readers who grew up on G.A. Henty and Horatio Alger, or those who want to understand what adventure meant to an earlier generation.
