Richard Puz

The Carolinian Richard Puz

Early pioneers on the American frontier, are armed with self-reliance, courage, and daring?just like North Carolinian, Abraham Rallemore. He learns at the Battle of New Orleans that the mettle of a man is what he does, not the color of his skin; fights the slave system on his tobacco plantation; confronts dangers traveling west; and is stunned as a nation is ripped apart by civil war. He struggles with the evils of slavery and the many dangers that crisscross his lifelong path?tornadoes, Indians, cutthroats, wildfire, and Hooker, the slaver. Whetting his appetite for new adventures is Big Jen, a frontiersman scout for General Andrew Jackson and the first white man to settle in southern Missouri in the land called Six Bulls.