Wild ran the rivers
Subtitle: one family's Western odyssey
By: James D. Crownover
Edition: First edition.
Series: Five trails west -- book I
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9781432828776
Subjects: Indian families; Fiction; Cherokee Indians; History
Description: Ruth Harris and her younger brother, Jerry, who are of mixed Cherokee and white heritage, head down the Ohio with their parents to settle new country, perhaps in Arkansas. Pirates kill their parents, and the kids become captives on a Mississippi River island. Ruth is forced into marriage with a ne'er-do-well and bears his child; Jerry seems destined to become a pirate. Then the New Madrid earthquake of 1811 intervenes.