The camp in the mountains

By Edward Sylvester Ellis

Subjects: Winnebago Indians, History, Shawnee Indians, Fiction, Indians of North America in fiction, Ozark Mountains in fiction, Shawnee Indians in fiction, Winnebago Indians in fiction, Frontier and pioneer life in fiction, Frontier and pioneer life, Indians of North America

Description: In the Louisiana Territory of the late eighteenth century, sixteen-year-old Fred Linden, his fifteen-year-old friend Terry Clark, and a Shawanoe warrior, Deerfoot, finally reach the trappers' cabin but find it occupied by hostile Winnebagoes.