Bad Man Ballad

BY SCOTT RUSSELL SANDERS

Brief Description:
First published in 1986, here the Quaker novelist writes of Ohio in 1813, a thickly wooded, hilly, creek-carved highway of western settlement. Wolves still howl at midnight on village greens. Each log cabin is a fortress, and no one travels without a knife and gun. Through this armed and fearful countryside, three people - Ely Jackson, a 17-year-old backwoods boy; Owen Lightfoot, a lawyer from Philadelphia with a romantic view of the frontier; and Rain Hawk, a girl living on her own in the wilderness - search for an awesome quarry, a mysterious giant-like figure who is on the run for murder.

Indiana University Press 2004 252 PP. Paper

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