Dance on the Wind: The Plainsmen
by Terry C. Johnston
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Author: Terry C. JohnstonEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1996-08-01
ISBN: 0553572814
Number of pages: 640
Publisher: Bantam
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Book Review: A remarkable view of life in the early 1800s plus great writing
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the first book of a 3-part series. Titus Bass is a 16-year-old who cannot stand the thought of living out his life on a farm. His 18-year-old girlfriend wants to keep him on his family farm and she is willing to lose her innocence to make sure he stays. After a pregnancy scare, he finally leaves by night, taking the shirt and food his mother had laid out for him. With him goes his grandfather's rifle, with which Titus won the shooting match as the best marksman in the county, having lost only to a passing outdoorsman.
Titus finds, and fights, Indians as a member of a flatboat crew enroute to New Orleans with a load to sell. Along the way, he is introduced to drinking, fighting and women who sell their favors. The trip downriver is full of adventure, including the death of the flatboat's owner. The rest of the crew, plus the widow of another flatboat captain, finally make it to the southern city, sell the goods and boat, and make their way back north.
Along the way Titus frees a colored man, then gives the poor slave his legal freedom. After living with a family south of St. Louis, helping on their farm and eventually loving their daughter, he finally takes off, again by night, and makes his way to the city. Little does he know, and we are not told till the 3rd volume, that he left a pregnant girl behind.
Titus spends almost 9 years in St. Louis, becoming a skilled blacksmith, and during the final year befriends an older man who is anxious to get back to the western mountains to trap beaver again. As he makes the traps, they talk over many weeks, and spend too much time drinking and fighting in taverns. Just about the time they have accumulated the goods and necessities for the westward trek, the older man is killed, and Titus takes off by himself after earning the right to a fine mountain rifle. His blacksmith employer gives Titus a saddle and other gear, and Titus saddle his older friend's horse and rides away.
The next volume, no. 2 in the series, is Buffalo Palace, an equally-engrossing story.
Summary of Dance on the Wind: The Plainsmen
The sequel to Dance on the Wind continues the saga of the adventures of Titus ""Scratch"" Bass, a nineteenth-century Kentucky farm boy who becomes a frontiersman along the Ohio River. Reprint.Native American Books
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