Raising Cain

Ohio history comes alive with this new series by Gerald L. Guy

Young Billy Cain is eager to do the right thing at all times. Sometimes good deeds backfire, though. When Billy rescues a trapper from a winter freeze, Jeremiah Peppers promptly steals his boss’ prized thoroughbred, Blackjack. The horse thief easily is captured and justice hangs on...

In the Ohio Country of 1802, a man’s word is an irrevocable promise. Returning a favor, paying a debt, or fulfilling a pledge is as vital as life itself.
Clayton Maxwell will do anything to recover his prized thoroughbred, Blackjack, stolen twice from under his nose. He calls on Abraham Sanders, the famed “Maumee Mauler,” to join Billy Cain and...

Ohio history and adventure collide in Book #4 of Gerald L. Guy’s Ohio Frontier Adventure series, “Raising Cain.”
Abraham Sanders thought he had shed the horrors that haunted him for years after the death of his best friend at the Battle of Fallen Timbers. Nichan and her Ottawa family helped him heal in the wilds of the Northwest Territory. He...

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...

The Kentucky Derby is a 1.25-mile race over smooth terrain and is said to be the most exciting two minutes in sports. Imagine racing two hundred miles over wilderness trails from Marietta to Chillicothe and back. It’s what made the Statehood Challenge of 1802 the most heralded event in Early American history. Young Billy Cain had to do it...