Sting of Death: An Ohio Frontier Classic (Raising Cain Book 5)

The Raising Cain adventure series explores the Northwest Territory, specifically Ohio, in a period following the American Revolution. Only trappers and explorers ventured west of the Appalachian Mountains in the eighteenth century. King Charles didn’t want his subjects migrating west because they would be too hard to control. So, early colonists clung to the Eastern Seaboard. Once the defeated Red Coats departed, a massive migration began to the open lands we now call the American Midwest. These are the stories of some of those early Ohioans.
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Chance throws Harlon Meeks, Nichan and Abraham Sanders together for a cross-country adventure.
Meeks, raised in the Pennsylvania home of Quaker parents, flees west to avoid the American Revolution. He joins a handful of frontiersmen to help shape the settlement of Marietta in the Northwest Territory and then seeks the solitude of the Rocky Mountains.
A trail of dead bodies darkens the future for Sanders and his Ottawa woman. They rush to flee the Ohio Country and the long arm of the law they assume is nipping at their heels. The couple hopes to get as far away from civilization as possible. When Meeks offers to serve as a guide for their western sojourn, they
accept, knowing the aid of an experienced traveler could be priceless. There are no roads or maps to the vast wilderness beyond the Mississippi River.
River marauders, Plains Indians, and Mother Nature try to deter them. When they finally reach the purple majesty of the Rocky Mountains, a badly scarred mountain man and an aging Crow shaman alter their destinies again. Fate will have its fun as they discover the sting of death is a cloak not easily discarded.