"Sam, My Warrior": The Sam Ogden Mountain Man Series Vol. V

by Robert M Johnson

Overview

The winter of 1826 finds young Sam Ogden living with the Mandan Indians in their village on the Missouri River. Life in the Slanted Village is built on the traditions of several hundred years. Sam and his mentor, Clyde Patterson have gradually become part of this complex network of practices and ceremonies. Sam has taken a wife, the daughter of Chief Rolling Thunder, her name is Little Fire.
In the few months that they have been married, the young couple have successfully made a home of their spacious mud hut on the prairie. The Slanted Village is comprised of more than fifty of these solidly built log and mud homes. But living so close to the great River, the Missouri, brings with it the danger of the white man's illness. Already, the Mandan have been decimated by these fierce epidemics and another is now upon them.
"Sam, my Warrior," is the fifth volume in the Sam Ogden Mountain Man Series. The story traces the evolution of the early Rocky Mountain West, marking its origins in the beaver trapping, fur trading period, through the gold rush phase and then into the cattle-raising period. The excitement of these simpler and nobler times continues to inspire us all! The series is as follows:
1. Hard to Kill
2. Winter Down
3. Rendezvous Prize
4. The Deerslayer's Destiny
5. "Sam, My Warrior"

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781518721984
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	10/21/2015
Series:	The Sam Ogden Mountain Man , #5
Pages:	182
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.39(d)

About the Author

Robert M Johnson has spent a good portion of his adult life living in mountain regions. He currently lives in Virginia just fifty miles from where John Coulter the great frontiersman was born. The life of frontiersmen like Sam Ogden is a constant struggle with the elements, the changes in seasons, altitude, animal migrations, and human greed.
The author has spent countless hours hiking and camping in high mountain regions. His interest in all things western has been a lifelong passion. The period between 1810 and 1860 holds a special place for him. The information and inspiration that we have from this historical time in the American West is certainly a rich source of ideas and ideals.
In this fifth volume of the Sam Ogden Series, a winter with the Mandan Indians had to be cut short because of a smallpox epidemic that ravaged the Slanted Village. The Missouri River had become a place of white man's commerce, bringing with it some of the white man's diseases. Sam left the village with his Mandan Wife and his partner Clyde Patterson to do some beaver trapping in the Rocky Mountains.