With Ethan Allen at Ticonderoga

Thirteen-year-old Enoch Harding has spent his whole life in the shadow of the Green Mountains, learning to track deer and read the forest's warnings. But when a catamount nearly claims his life in the opening pages, saved only by the intervention of the rugged ranger Josiah Bolderwood, Enoch realizes his boyhood dreams of adventure have arrived with a violence he wasn't ready for. Set in the turbulent years before the American Revolution, this novel follows Enoch as he falls in with Ethan Allen and the legendary Green Mountain Boys, men who answer to no crown and few laws. The frontier is burning: land disputes between settlers and Yorkers, banditry in the passes, and a growing fury against British authority. Enoch, still grieving his father, must learn what it means to stand with men who fight not for glory but for the right to call this harsh, beautiful land their own. W. Bert Foster captures the rough poetry of early America with kinetic prose and a young hero whose courage is tested not in one grand battle, but in a hundred small moments of choice.