Title: The Smoky Hill
Description: A semi-historical novel set in 1844, the time of the Westward expansion. Central in the story is the Booth family. Gabe Booth, a mountain man and scout, joins up with John Charles Fremont. This is a tale of the push to open the West to settlers and the struggle against the Cheyenne, Comanche, Kiowa, and Arapahoe Indians who fight desperately to save their ancient civilization.
Subjects: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Westerns, Kansas, Indians of North America, Frontier and Pioneer Life, Pioneers, Smoky Hill River
Time periods: 1844